Norman Borlaug Quotes
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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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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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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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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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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.
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I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
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You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.
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We worry so much about what people think of us and so we often don't stand up for what we believe in. And some people literally give their life for what they believe in. As a Christian, that is something I really admire. I want to be a part of spreading that message.
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Food for me has to pop, and at Spice Market, the food really pops.
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All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.
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A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.
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Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
