David Holmgren Quotes
Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
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I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
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When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.
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The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.
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The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
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It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.
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The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
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We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
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Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.
