David Holmgren Quotes
I'm under no illusion that the future will be a neat and tidy or desirable world. We will gain a lot of things through necessity and a lot of them through all sorts of fragile dysfunction - not because they're bad ideas but because they will inevitably be adopted in a chaotic, reactive way.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
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Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.
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My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth.
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If you're going to be an academic who's involved in the world of policy, you have to be involved in the world that exists.
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I'm under no illusion that the future will be a neat and tidy or desirable world. We will gain a lot of things through necessity and a lot of them through all sorts of fragile dysfunction - not because they're bad ideas but because they will inevitably be adopted in a chaotic, reactive way.
