Elisa Sednaoui Quotes
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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I do think that all of us think in poems.
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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He always asked, why thus? why this way, not another way? I answered: Because in what we do daily and in the way we do it, we enact the gods. He said: Then the gods are only what we do. I said: In what we do rightly, the gods are.
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The American elite does not have any real image of peace - other than as an uneasy interlude existing precariously by virtue of the balance of mutual fright. The only seriously accepted plan for peace is the full loaded pistol. In short, war or a high state of war-preparedness is felt to be the normal and seemingly permanent condition of the United States.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.
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Sex is biological, but gender is mental.
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Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
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When it was first proposed, I was willing to support it as a 'transitional fuel' because it had some clear advantages for Hawaii. Much has changed since then. LNG will no longer save us any money.
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I love a good party - but I'm not all that attracted to a celebrity lifestyle.
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Traditional companies have to start looking into themselves to offer more opportunities in their companies by starting new subsidiaries and joint ventures.
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You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.
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You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
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I've been almost everywhere. But I've never been to the steppes of Latvia. It's something I've always wanted to do.
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Undeniably, Birdseye changed our civilization.
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We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.
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Competition is the best way to ensure prescription drugs are affordable.
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Who Honors those we love for the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us...and at the same time sings that we'll never die? Who teaches us what's real...and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us...and who holds the key that can set us free? It's you. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight!
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I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.
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I don't want to know what the future will be. I want to live it.
