Norman Borlaug Quotes
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I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.
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I love wrestling, and I love the entertainment aspect of wrestling, but the rest of my life, I just want to be able to live and enjoy my life. I don't want to be living it essentially for other people's entertainment.
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I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.
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It's sort of an invigorating and enlivening experience. I feel very confident and very excited, and perhaps an overshadowing emotion is one of great humility at this point.
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Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
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I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
