Bill Mollison Quotes
"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
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F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.
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Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.
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"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
