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Jeremy Rifkin Quotes

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

Jeremy Rifkin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 26, 1945

Topics

Food Seeds Survival Intellectual Now

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

Jimmy Wales

Media You Get Background Much

I can retire from football with a smile on my face.

John Matuszak

Smile Football Face I Can Retire

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Robert Hass

Good Words Saying Moments Body Days

I think standup is pretty good for an introvert because you are performing, but, I mean, it's on your own terms. There are so many people in the room, but it's a one-sided conversation. And you actually don't have to interact - unless you want to.

Amy Schumer

Good People Think You Conversation

I only watch films in the cinema. I'm old fashioned. I'm a lost cause.

Stephen Frears

Cinema Lost Old Watch Only Cause

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

Sloan Wilson

Death People American Want Group

I think that the public debate that we had on the Iran deal was very important. That's probably one of the most consequential things most of us will ever vote on ; a nuclear arms control agreement with a mortal enemy. And the White House - despite all their efforts - failed miserably.

Tom Cotton

Control Think House Debate White

It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don't talk about the arts there much on career day.

Ron White

Day Me Texas Career Street Talk

'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Good Children Video Games Movies

I made a vow that I wouldn't be tempted by what could happen to me if I went to Europe. I thought, 'You could be absorbed in it - it's so seductive, you might lose your own search for identity.' Then, when I did finally go to Europe, I was able to resist it because I had established my own identity.

Derek Walcott

Identity Me Thought Search You Lose

Bogut - I wouldn't be the defender I am without Bogut. He taught me a ton. Angles. How to guard the post. You name it, he taught me a ton.

Draymond Green

I Am Me Name You Without Angles

Ever since I knew Dad did pentathlon, I wanted to do it as well. I have seen all his old photos, and he still has his Olympic riding jacket, and that makes this even more special.

Chloe Esposito

Special More Jacket Old Riding Seen