Charles C. Mann Quotes

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.

Charles C. Mann

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PlantSoilAfricaLandMoreFarmers

I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

John Paul DeJoria

WorkPhonePersonDoneEverything

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

John Jay Chapman

PastNew YorkPresentPowerfulNew

Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.

Angela Duckworth

GreatSometimesUpThingsGetSome

Let's embrace being not normal!

Angelina Jolie

EmbraceNormalBeing

I am strongly opposed to any form of amnesty, including, especially, executive amnesty.

Steve Scalise

I AmExecutiveFormIncludingAm

The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.

Miroslav Volf

GodBehaviorNewDoneFollowWell

I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

Louise L. Hay

BelieveThinkThinkingChooseCreate

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

Logan Mankins

LoveBusinessYourselfEnoughYou

I feel like the job of an artist is to confront their own darkness and their own demons and fears. And I want to make movies that feel human up on the screen. I don't really relate to dudes wearing spandex and capes.

Derek Cianfrance

DarknessJobFeelDemonsArtistOwn

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.

Drake Bell

CatsOldYearsI Was RaisedBuddy

I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up there one minute, and then just disappear.

Chris Hemsworth

PeopleYouGoThroughUpDisappear

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

Chubby Checker

HopeWalkAmazingMeNeverExplain

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