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Michael Pollan

"One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to change things, but your eating issues are really primal. You decide every day what you're going to put in your body and what you refuse to put in your body. That's politics at its most basic."

Source : "Michael Pollan: Eating Is a Political Act". Interview with Mark Eisen, www.alternet.org. November 7, 2008.

Michael Pollan

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“In the large buy out space, which is where we (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) focus our efforts, there are relatively few firms with the capital, experience, infrastructure and networks to compete effectively with the large complex companies that we seek to acquire.”
“There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.”
“I guess it's pretty diverse, but I do have quite a 30-and-older male audience coming out to the shows. I don't know if that's due to me being a female or what.”
“If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.”

Source : Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.263, Bethany House
“People will pay for something they like because they want to ensure its future.”
“Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.”
“Ayurveda is not just about nutrition or herbology, it has a unique tool for diagnosis, diagnosis of understanding the human constitution is different from person to person. Each one has a unique metabolic system.”
“I want her to be powerful on these covers, and sometimes that's a quiet power and other times it's a more bombastic power. But when you're going to have a book out there that's called Wonder Woman and she's on it, you have a responsibility to put out a certain kind of image.”

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