Bill Mollison Quotes
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
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I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume?
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I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
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I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.
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Disobedience is one of the few tricks you have left to hang on to the idea that you continue to exist distinctively and are still reliably connected to the person who bore your name on the outside.
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When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.
