Farmers Quotes - Page 19

• I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

  Willie Nelson

  Pigs, Had A Great Time, Great Times

  "Willie Nelson: What I've Learned" by Robert Huber, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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• It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of my readers with the terrain, and their preconceptions, are quite different in those two cases, and their perspective, as I imagine it, has to be taken into account at every turn.

  William Finnegan

  Taken, Two, Perspective

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

  Nick Offerman

  Illinois, Broken, Might

  Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

  Nick Offerman

  Uncles, Illinois, Guy

  "Our Valentine Gift to You". Interview with Kera Bolonik, nymag.com. February 7, 2010.

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• I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me.

  Katy Perry

  Song, Couple, Writing

  "The GQ Cover Story: Katy Perry" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. January 21, 2014.

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• I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.

  Rick Perry

  Home, Son, College

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

  Dennis Quaid

  Real, Texas, Grandfather

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• Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

  Rachael Ray

  Guy, Trying, Diners

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• Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Gps, Agriculture, Different

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• This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

  Tom Vilsack

  Years, Agriculture, Income

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• The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.

  Phillip Adams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Tombstone

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• Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.

  John Moody

  Struggle, Lines, Problem

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• I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

  Alice Waters

  Cost, Should, Feels

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

  Alice Waters

  People, Realization, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Because it's unacceptable that the aid worker's chauffeur only speaks his own tribal language, an applicant is needed who also speaks English fluently - and, ideally, one who is also well mannered. So you end up with some African biochemist driving an aid worker around, distributing European food, and forcing local farmers out of their jobs. That's just crazy!

  James Shikwati

  Jobs, Crazy, Speak English

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm like a small farmer who interacts with people who consume what I make and tend my little patch of ground, and the Spotifys of the world, which are like McDonald's, are going to make people less aware of how the thing gets made and of its value.

  David Bazan

  Mcdonalds, People, World

  "Station to Station: The Past, Present, and Future of Streaming Music". Interview with Eric Harvey, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2014.

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• A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pigs, Judging, May

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• Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

  Martha Stewart

  Self, Entrepreneur, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers as you had cows?

  David Ogilvy

  Agency, Two, Cows

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• Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

  Ronald Reagan

  Turkeys, Detente

  Ronald Reagan, Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, George P. Shultz, Martin Anderson (2001). “Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

  Jean Houston

  Poetry And Music, World, Singers

  Source: digitalseance.wordpress.com

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• It's a lifestyle. If you do something good that is worth making, you should make it forever. It's like being a farmer. Just because he makes a gallon of milk doesn't make him stop.

  Josh Smith

  Forever, Milk, Lifestyle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no opportunities to better themselves or their education - and they're not that different from the farmers and working-class people that I visited when I went to Kenya with Oxfam.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Mean, Opportunity, Class

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• If you look at a farmer and his daily expenditure on existing energy services, it is much higher on an incremental delta basis. And then there is an emotional cost of not providing their kids with the right to educate. If you calculate these costs in economic terms and create a financing mechanism for them to buy it, the emotional delta cost is much higher compared to their household.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Kids, Emotional, Energy

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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• Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.

  Luke Bryan

  Growing Up, Dad, Rain

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