Bill Mollison Quotes

That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

Bill Mollison

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• Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • People
  • Deep
  • Acting

• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Military
  • Strength
  • Form

• I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Comedy

• I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Honest

• I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Tennis
  • Gym
  • Dancing

• I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • World
  • Different
  • Know

• You work for whatever you get in life.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Culture
  • Gay
  • Process

• 'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Ideas
  • Parenting

• Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Power
  • Violence
  • Thoughts

• I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Work
  • Career
  • Politics

• One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • More
  • Works
  • Arabic

• Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Friends
  • True
  • Abuse

• Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question - 'Now what?' Often this question is followed by a - deer in the headlights - response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear.

  

  Darren L Johnson
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Fear

• Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the average American family of four will receive a $1,182 tax cut. Imagine what you could do with $1,182 more in your pocket!

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • Family
  • American

• It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • Funny

• I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Money

• I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Journey
  • Anxiety
  • Crying

• There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.

  

  Alison Moyet

• Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Opinion
  • Mark
  • Egotism

• All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Hurt
  • Questions
  • Fame

• The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Design
  • Disaster
  • Agriculture