Michael Pollan Quotes

Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.

Michael Pollan

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RelationshipFoodFocusPlantsHuman

I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.

Jenna Wortham

TogetherKindClassPossibleRowing

The idea of the celebrity politician is nothing new, and depending on one's perspective, either President Obama or Sarah Palin are the country's first celebrity politicians.

Meghan McCain

PerspectiveCountryNewNothingIdea

I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.

Maurice Sendak

AcceptRoleIllustrator

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

Andy Partridge

SmallHandThingsStonesFacesPop

I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA.

Amish Tripathi

PassionYouthDNAMythologyAlmost

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Rita Mae Brown

LoveWomenMenThinkSexDefine

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

Mikhail Lermontov

SeaRiverCalmWayWaterfallBegins

Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt.

Jose Antonio Vargas

TimePeopleFeelGuiltNewsGet

I have to think a thousand times before I speak. If I am myself and end up saying one wrong thing, there will be 1,000 negative tweets about me.

Disha Patani

MyselfI AmMeSayingNegativeEnd

I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry.

Diana Ross

ListenNeedEverythingOutIndustry

I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.

David Walton

WindGoKindLivingWhereBeen

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.

Sebastian Horsley

SufferingFeelArtistGoMoreOrder

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