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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Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I wouldn't be surprised. Again, you have to ask other people, because I don't have a measuring device.
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What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.
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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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I like statement earrings.
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We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.
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Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.
