Michael Pollan Quotes

My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with.

Michael Pollan

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Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

Jhumpa Lahiri

WordsIdentityEndLanguageYouEat

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

Andrew Jackson

ControlEndHandsYouFindBecome

InSight will get to the 'core' of the nature of the interior and structure of Mars, well below the observations we've been able to make from orbit or the surface.

John M. Grunsfeld

NatureWillInsightStructureMars

My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.

Jeff Sessions

FatherThinkHimSomethingBaptist

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

Sophie Hannah

MeEnoughAttentionRewardWant

The fact is, I've been releasing records longer than I've been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.

Riz Ahmed

LongBeenRecordsFactThanLeast

I think you mustn't tell your body, you mustn't tell your soul, 'I'm going to retire.' You may be changing your life emphasis, but there's still things that you have in mind to do that now seems the right time to do.

Ruby Dee

LifeTimeSoulMindThinkBody

Public education is an investment in our future.

Matt Blunt

EducationFuturePublic EducationOur

There will always be, within a party, people who backed one candidate versus people who backed another, and there will be factions in the party, and there's always a little glee faction looking at the difficulty of the other faction.

Mitt Romney

PeopleLookingPartyWillWithin

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

Dennis Farina

LoveKnowMoviesHardRealUsed

Senior officials are always looking for good juniors, so when the opportunity comes, they give you the responsibilities.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

GoodOpportunityLookingYouSenior

What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

Alison Sweeney

LifeFitnessRestWrongPlansTake

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