Eliot Coleman Quotes
Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be solved by making better compost.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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My challenge is to find a beautiful balance: to make women beautiful, to make a woman dream to wear a beautiful outfit.
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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
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Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
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There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.
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We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.
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You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.
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The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.
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For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.
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It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.
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Wake up every morning thankful for everything that God gave you, and make your passion your purpose in life.
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Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be solved by making better compost.
