Maira Kalman Quotes
Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I always have to be writing.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.
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I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.
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I have a dark sense of humor.
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Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
