Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.

Paolo Bacigalupi

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• Genetics
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• I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Movies

• So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • School
  • Education
  • Religious

• I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Rock
  • Just
  • Expect

• I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Live
  • Home
  • Night

• I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Idea

• Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • History
  • Present
  • Honesty

• I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Pardon
  • Glowing
  • Adjust

• I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Morning

• I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • Attention
  • Myself

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Tears
  • Walk

• Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Man
  • Stock
  • Market

• I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Brain

• You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Art
  • Know
  • Voice

• I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • America

• Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Long
  • America
  • Health

• For a movie - any movie - to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go right. You have to hit the zeitgeist.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Up
  • Work
  • Movie

• Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Food
  • Young

• I grew up in a house where I was a spectator to the sport of cooking. In that way, I just learned so much about what it really takes to make food.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Up
  • House
  • Food

• I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Guy

• I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Food
  • Corporations
  • Genetics