Michael Pollan Quotes

You look how much sugar is in a typical supermarket loaf of bread: it's a lot of sugar. It's just become one of those sugar delivery systems in our food economy.

Michael Pollan

Recitation: by Male by Female

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FoodYouLookBreadSugarBecome

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

FutureLivePastImpossiblePresent

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Angela Carter

DinnerRulesTableNowDinner Table

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

Michael Bergin

MarriageGirlMomJustLikeMarry

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.

John Piper

LifeGodCultureFeelPrioritiesUs

I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside.

Tracy Morgan

YellowPeopleMindMeBelieveBlack

My dad said that if it's part of the character, I'm allowed to say bad words, but if it's not part of the character, and I say it at home when I'm not acting, that I won't be acting anymore.

Rohan Chand

HomeCharacterWordsBadActingSay

There's a time in everyone's career where you go, 'Ah, this is hard - how long am I going to have to do this?' But the rewards are so great. Who gets to go on the podium and hear the national anthem? The whole nation singing! Money can't buy you that.

Mo Farah

GreatTimeMoneySingingYouCareer

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

Jose Saramago

WorkI AmFriendsPersonSamePrize

When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.

Donald Wills Douglas

AirplaneFlyingYouGoPaperWeight

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

LoveHopeGreatDeathStormWorld

Playboy's all about why it's worth working so hard.

Christie Hefner

WorthWhyHardWorkingPlayboy

I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.

Colin Farrell

DriveGoCaliforniaUpLittleLike

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