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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Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.
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I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.
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Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
