Michael Pollan Quotes

We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. So we have to figure out a way of getting supermarkets and farmers markets into the inner cities.

Michael Pollan

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LiveHealthFoodBestPeopleCity

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

Joe Green

CommunityWinSmallYouElection

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

John Olver

LeadershipWarDecisionsChoiceCost

I'm not involved with the female world.

John Lone

WorldInvolvedFemale

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

Trey Anastasio

LifeSickAlcoholMy LifeComplete

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

Robert Zubrin

SpacePeopleFateEnoughExploration

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Robertson Davies

TimeFoolHappyBe HappyOnly

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

Michael Patrick King

AloneManMistakeMindGayNever

'Brace the Wave' is an acoustic-electric record recorded with electricity on analog-digital and digitally-analog equipment.

Lou Barlow

WaveElectricityEquipmentRecord

My view is that we cannot be ruled by fear. When we do that, we are not making ourselves see. We are not thinking things through. We are not looking at what works.

Loretta Lynch

FearLookingThinkingViewSee

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

Joy Page

LifeChangeMindYouSometimesYour

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

Chen-Ning Yang

TodayI AmConflictStandYouMore

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

Antonio Tabucchi

HistoryWarPeopleMeWorldForget

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