Bill Mollison Quotes
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.
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I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
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A lot of people had a misconception that I would be the perfect poster child for Islam. So I got a lot of Instagram comments like, 'Oh, you don't have your neck covered, you're not a Muslim!' My thing is, stop judging women, especially if you're a man, because you don't know the responsibility that comes with wearing a hijab.
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I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.
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I still think I am the greatest.
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I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
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Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
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Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
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I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
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He just keeps coming back, so I've got no doubt he'll play as long as he wants and he's got the hunger. He just loves it.
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The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
