Louise Fresco Quotes

#1. There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

Louise Fresco

#2. I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.

Young-Ha Kim

#3. Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

Louise Fresco

#4. A common reaction to extreme events is to say they couldn't have been predicted

John Cassidy

#5. People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it.

Jane Seymour

#6. I have always been a dark writer.

George R R Martin

#7. You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

Alice McDermott

#8. Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

Louise Fresco

#9. We're seeing diamonds coming back into favor.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#10. rules seemed to constantly shift on whim.

Loretta Chase

#11. Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.

Louise Fresco

#12. Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.

Elizabeth Warren

#13. Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread of communicable diseases like avian influenza.

Louise Fresco

#14. I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.

James Mercer

#15. I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

Harold Ross

#16. We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.

Terry Pratchett