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I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#art #art form #been #biggest #century

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#eating #go #hides #how #i

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#concern #culture #environmentalists #kind #landscape

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#bad #bad luck #being #born #determination

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#doubts #fail #how #learned

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#better #conduct #dad #free #got

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects. ↗

— John Pople

#armed #armed forces #attend #before #forces

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness. ↗

— Franka Potente

#before #book #coming #essays #fitness

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. ↗

— Colin Powell

#become #determination #dream #hard #hard work

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life. ↗

— Melody Beattie

#empowerment #life #lost #realization #life