Michael Pollan Quotes

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

Michael Pollan

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I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

Jim Yong Kim

FeelMeditationMy OwnMorePatient

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

Jessica Capshaw

TimeSelfishThinkSomeonePlace

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

John Engler

JobStartDoingPresidentOffHe

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

Jef I. Richards

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In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

John Sexton

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I have been wearing clothes designed by Maheshwari for many years now.

Sridevi

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Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Michael Shermer

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In the beginning, when I signed with Miami, they said they were never gonna trade me, and then, after first year, boom, they traded me to Toronto.

Jose Reyes

BeginningMeMiamiYearSaidNever

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

Dr. Dre

LifeMusicImprovementDayMy Life

I'm not around real dead people all that often - most people aren't - but when you are, you tend to be very, very respectful and quiet, and people do tend to whisper 'cause you're trying to show massive amounts of respect, but if this is your daily life, you have to figure out a way to go about it and not go insane by the time you reach Friday.

Brian Dietzen

LifeDailyRespectTimeDaily Life

When you come from within the industry, you are better prepared for the industry. For example, you see your family deal with the nonsense that is written in the papers, or the highs and lows of a hit and a flop.

Arjun Kapoor

FamilyBetterYouNonsenseSeeDeal

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense.

Sharon Stone

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