Michael Specter Quotes

All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how.

Michael Specter

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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

John Abbott

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I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

Anna Chancellor

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I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies.

Michael Cimino

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At first, almost everyone who got involved did so for philosophical reasons. We saw bitcoin as a great idea, as a way to separate money from the state.

Roger Ver

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At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with them and who didn't.

Judy Chu

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Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.

Don Lemon

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In the kind of roles I do, you can do them and walk away from it and have a really nice time.

Dennis Farina

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Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Chris Marker

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In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Chris Barber

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We've got to protect the nursery schools. I'm chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I'd be worried about the socialising skills of children.

Colin Salmon

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And, of course, Barbados is the other place where I like to be.

Cliff Richard

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All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them like singular, magical, and multi-dimensional recipe boxes. They wait for us to pluck out a card, to stand over the stove, to start cooking.

Anthony Doerr

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