Michael Pollan Quotes

You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean. So what plants have - while we have consciousness, toolmaking, language, they have biochemistry.

Michael Pollan

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PlantsWorldLanguageYouKnowOut

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

Jodhi May

BelieveYouFameWayMoreAnything

One product that you can never go wrong with is sunglasses because they are easy to misplace. I always get a couple of pairs every year.

Jessica Szohr

SunglassesYearEasyYouWrongGo

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

Jennie Finch

MomentBalanceThinkBeingI Think

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

Robert Kiyosaki

GreatFinancialYouInvestmentTell

We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.

Matt Haig

HealthViewTalkingMental Health

When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.

Ann Romney

MeBedExcitementOutBarnGoing

A gun saved my life. That's why I won't let my Second Amendment right be taken away from me.

Stacey Dash

LifeMeGunMy LifeWhyRight

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Robert A. Heinlein

GoodWantWednesdayWanted

Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.

Robert Casey

DemocracyAmericaAbortionReason

Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.

Masayoshi Son

WisdomKnowledgeBodyThingsMost

A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years.

Mary Lou Jepsen

TechnologyMyselfPeopleNextYears

In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.

Johnny Rivers

EarlyFenderBought

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