Bill Mollison Quotes
Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.
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I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
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Spirituality isn't a luxury. It's a must.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
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I'm not always 'Dominick Cruz, Tough Guy.' Depression runs in my bloodline.
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I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.
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The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.
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There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.
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Today, the U.S. has lost one out of every four manufacturing jobs that existed before NAFTA—over 5 million, with 42,000 factories closed. A modest trade surplus with Mexico was replaced with a large, persistent deficit. . . . NAFTA’s new investor protections dramatically increased the ability of corporations to outsource entire factories to Mexico”—resulting in the “giant sucking sound” presidential candidate Ross Perot warned us about.
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I grew up as a boy with aggression.
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My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
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Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.
