If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture because big likes to buy from big. So I realized, wow, how we cook or whether we cook has a huge bearing on what kind of agriculture we're going to have.
Michael Pollan
FoodEatingAgricultureFastKind
I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.
Herschel Walker
LoveGreatSaidKindAthleteKid
I try to write the kind of books I like to read.
Isabel Allende
KindTryWriteBooksLikeRead
I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writers who recognized the difference between the hard research of journalism and the kind of inquiry of mind that characterizes the essay.
John D'Agata
MindResearchJournalismRulesKind
My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.
Jaron Lanier
ParentsAmazingMeWeirdKindStuff
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.
Elmore Leonard
MoneyTogetherFoolFunActionKind
What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.
Jeff Bridges
CharacterYourselfYouKindLineUp
I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.
Bill Huizenga
KnowWantKindSeeHappenUs
If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.
Simon Beaufoy
MorningYouBedKindOutSomething
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
LifeSmileHappinessKissLookKind
In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.
Mary Stuart Masterson
WorkPassionRisksBetterKindBig
I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.
James Vincent McMorrow
DownPersonKindNeverWriteSit
Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.
Laura van den Berg
LoveTruthCreateKindFictionOwn
Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.
Jerry Lewis
WomanMeYouSeeingWrongKind
'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.
Lizzy Caplan
MenStoryQuietKindTwoDate
I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
LoveYouKindSoundBellyHits
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
Caroline Knapp
SolitudeKindAlwaysReliefBeen
I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy.
Robert Kirkman
LightMeThinkWalkingKindDead
I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.
David Bowie
ThoughtI CanKindSameSeeWell
People know I like to laugh and have a good time. Even when I'm sassy, it's still kind of stupid-silly.
Alyssa Edwards
GoodTimePeopleLaughKnowKind
When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
Willem Dafoe
ChallengesFindingYouKindWill
Time is not kind to everything.
Robbie Robertson
TimeKindEverything
I kind of treat myself like the audience. I don't like being lectured.
Patrick Wang
MyselfTreatKindAudienceBeing
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
Joe Orton
GoodPeopleBadGoKindTaste
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