Allan Savory Quotes
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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I definitely care about what I look like, certainly when I am going out in public, doing an appearance or something, but when I'm home, I'm all sweatpants, all the time.
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I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.
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Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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Personally, I don't wear fur.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
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I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.
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In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.
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If you can't take it, you won't make it.
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According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.
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There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.
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Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.
