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Lydia Millet Quotes

Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 5, 1968

Topics

Change World Capitalism Agriculture

I seem to have tireless energy when I get involved in things, on an almost OCD basis, which is a good way to do things because if you're gonna do something, you'd better make sure you do it well.

Good Energy Better You Way Seem

I have done quite a lot of outsider figures.

Done Outsider Quite Lot Figures

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

Failure I Am Diet Years Yes Kidney

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.

Age Time School Better Paths Know

I always start my day with a red-eye misto - two shots, extra hot, extra foam - from Starbucks.

Mika Brzezinski

Day Start Starbucks Hot Two Always

I can walk in a room of people who may not know Christ and still be myself. And they can still see Christ in me even though they may not know who it is, but I know that they can see that in me and I'm carrying that with me.

Michelle Carter

Myself Walk People Me I Can Know

I grew up in southwest Iowa, on a farm north of Stanton, Iowa, which is a tiny little town, a farming community. I went to Iowa State University and joined Army ROTC while I was there and just have had such a phenomenal life. I am a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Life Community Freedom I Am Farm Up

I have a lot of help to do chores so I can be with my family, and I never have any help over the weekends.

Family Help I Can Never Over Chores

I'm not the fastest, the strongest, the most athletic, the tallest. But in order for me to be good at what I do, I have to focus on my craft so much that it alleviates those other things. I can't have personal relationships like other people do. I can't spend time on that.

Good Time Focus People Me Personal

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

Leadership Sharp Necessary Avoid

I never pictured myself being liked by anybody.

Myself Never Being Anybody Liked

I know how I like my food. I like it spicy, salty, sticky, crunchy, juicy, oozy - basically any dish you know and love, jacked up to a bordering-on-socially-unacceptable amount of flavor.

Love Food You Know Spicy Salty

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