Bill Mollison Quotes
Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
Quotes to Explore
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
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Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.
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I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.
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If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
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Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
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She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.
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If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.
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Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.
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By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.
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Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.
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Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
