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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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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Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.
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You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.
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During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.
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After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.
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I’m grandiose. Because I live a grandiose life. I’m not 'aw shucks' … because I'm gnarly. (The Howard Stern Show)
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I don't want to know what the future will be. I want to live it.
