David Fairchild Quotes

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

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• As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Media
  • First Amendment

• I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Myself

• I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

  

  Angela Davis
  • World
  • Food
  • Engagement

• The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

  

  Norman McLaren
  • Quality
  • Difficult
  • Made

• For many characters, the prospect of having a child in their life brings up a lot of issues about their own parents. And who doesn't love that? Bad mommy or daddy issues are a delicious staple in romance novels.

  

  Molly O'Keefe
  • Romance
  • Having
  • Daddy

• Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Me
  • Rival

• Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Rival

• I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree's point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Sweet
  • Tree
  • Forest

• All the healthiest countries don't eat a lot of tropical fruits. They stay away from pineapples, mangos, papayas, and melons and focus on fruits that have edible skin, edible seeds, or are citrus fruits.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Fruits
  • Tropical fruits
  • Healthiest countries

• A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Time
  • President
  • Right

• If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Trying
  • Home
  • Kids

• From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.

  

  Adam Sedgwick
  • Up
  • Done
  • Why

• Those that fight don't listen, those that listen don't fight.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Fight

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.

  

  Anthony Sampson
  • Up
  • World
  • Destiny

• Tobacco control is clearly a number one priority in Europe, not only aimed at men, particularly the male populations of Central and Eastern Europe, but increasingly targeted towards women, especially in Northern Europe.

  

  Peter Boyle
  • Priority
  • Europe
  • Tobacco

• What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. With autism, people make assumptions, but it's very broad, and everyone's so different. You have to treat each person as an individual.

  

  Nikki Reed
  • Individual
  • Treat
  • Autism

• ...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

  

  David Fairchild
  • Fruits
  • Rival
  • Avocado