Wes Jackson Quotes
Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
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Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.
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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
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I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
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I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.
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Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.
