Alex Shoumatoff Quotes

The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.

Alex Shoumatoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 4, 1946

Topics

BrokenDownCreatingGrowingWay

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

Jiang Zemin

PoliticsTalkStudyAboutPositively

Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford - or a flag. I still do it on an occasion when a word is strange to me.

Andrae Crouch

CarMeDrawingYouPicturesPage

We need more justices who will uphold the Constitution, follow the rule of law, and protect our Montana way of life.

Matt Rosendale

LifeLawConstitutionRule Of Law

I always write my first draft in longhand, in lined notebooks. I move around the house, sitting where I like, and watch the words spool out in front of me, actually taking a lot of pleasure in the way they look in my strange handwriting on the page.

Sue Miller

WordsMeLookHousePageSitting

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

Robbie Williams

KnowMentalAbsolutelyPerhaps

You win a race, the next race it's a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That's what is funny. But that's what is interesting. And that's what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

Michael Schumacher

FunnyTimeBestYourselfWinYou

I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political science. I thought, 'Wow, this is something I really enjoy.' I kind of got into that whole world of law and political science. I was really into it and enjoying it, and then I took an acting elective, and that was it.

Michael Kelly

GoodScienceCollegeLawWorld

For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.

Doug Liman

CreativeMeProcessBudgetRight

I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.

Bryan Greenberg

WorkGoActorCaliforniaMove

I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.

Brittany Snow

LightPeopleMeThinkDieMovies

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.

Anthony Horowitz

OutBeingEverywherePublishers

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

Peter O'Toole

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