Allan Savory Quotes
Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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I just like being on stage and making people happy.
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If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
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Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.
