Bill Mollison Quotes
The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.
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I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
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Anything's possible in politics.
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I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.
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I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
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You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.
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I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?'
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Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
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For me, life is about experiencing many new things and working with good people, working on good projects, and in general, just having any kind of job.
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The public always picks quality.
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People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.
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This is quite a time. Maybe the most unique time ever for me. But I can't thank everyone enough for what they've done for New Orleans. We have really gotten a chance to find out who we are at a time like this. And where we are. We're in the greatest country in the world.
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There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.
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I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer, Paul Moravec, and a few years ago, Paul and I were at lunch, and I said to him, "you really have to write an opera." So, he says very casually to me, "I'll do it if you write the libretto." Well, little did I know that the within a couple of years we would end up getting a commission from the Santa Fe Opera to write an opera together, "The Letter," which turned out to be the most successful commissioned opera in the history of the Santa Fe Opera.
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I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.
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The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
