Andrea Jones Quotes
Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
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I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.
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The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
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A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.
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People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.
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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.
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When plants are growing, they sense how big a root system they have to produce to draw from the soil the nutrients and moisture they need to grow and reach maturity and reproduce. On a conventional farm where there are high levels of fertilizer nutrients in the soil, along with lots of water, there is little incentive for roots to penetrate far.
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We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.
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Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems.
