Jeff Goodell Quotes

Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.

Jeff Goodell

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I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

Jerry Hall

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Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs.

John Patrick Shanley

LifeLivePathPeopleYouDangerous

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

Steve Earle

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We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Steve Jobs

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All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Stephen Colbert

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We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

Steve Largent

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The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.

Simon Greenleaf

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I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.

Trinny Woodall

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Back in the year 2000, most of the Internet companies were not making any money.

Masayoshi Son

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Don't watch a lot of television, don't listen to a lot of music. God. What have I been doing with all my time? I'm a bore.

Liz Tuccillo

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In the face of sluggish growth, aging societies, and increasing educational attainment of young women, the economic case for gender equality is clear.

Jose Angel Gurria

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When I was at MK Dons, I played all the games in centre midfield, so it's not like it's new to me.

Dele Alli

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