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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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 think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
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When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself.
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Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future. You shall be warned of dangers and shall be guided through the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.
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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.
