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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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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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'm not going to disappear.
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How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?
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You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise by those who want to use those to extinguish freedom and democracy, because if you do then the very things for which you stand are extinguished.
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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.
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If I ask for a goldfish, he spits a glob of phlegm into a jar of water.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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A human moment is a term I invented to distinguish in-person communication from electronic. Human moments are exponentially more powerful than electronic ones. I mean face-to-face, in-person contact and communication. I have identified several modern paradoxes and the first is that, for various reasons, we have grown electronically superconnected but we have simultaneously grown emotionally disconnected from each other.
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Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.
