Bill Mollison Quotes
You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.Bill Mollison
Quotes to Explore
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
Vernon Jordan -
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
Jack Prelutsky -
I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
Nalo Hopkinson -
I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
Ralph Stanley -
Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
P. J. O'Rourke -
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
Jackie Cooper
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
Beck -
Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
Sam Heughan -
I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
Edith Piaf -
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
Carl Barks -
When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
Larry Bird
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I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
Maggie Smith -
I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
Oscar Isaac -
The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
Jack Nicklaus -
People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
Larry Elder -
But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.
Dan Wheldon -
America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.
Sam Graves
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There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.
Farah Pahlavi -
I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.
Kaki King -
Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
Idries Shah -
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Richard Branson -
You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.
Bill Mollison