Luke Evans

I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.

Welsh Actor

Marcela Valladolid

My decisions are motivated by my life, my values, and what I stand for, not what I can gain financially from it. This has weeded out the opportunities that I don't care about and has brought on a lot of new opportunities that mean everything to me.

American Chef

Lil B

When people are hitting you off Twitter, a lot of times they don't know who you are. They're just hopping on your character and they gon' be hopping on another rapper next. You gotta weed out the real and the fake.

American Musician

Ginuwine

I didn't have my mom or my dad or cousins or anybody to guide me. I was around a whole bunch of wolves... I was just like, 'Lord, just guide me and weed these snakes out of my life.

American Actor

Michael Pollan

Basically, farm chemicals are labor-saving devices, and farmers who don't use them - weed killers especially - have to work harder or hire more help.

American Educator

Luther Burbank

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

American Environmentalist

Tom Petty

As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

American Philosopher

William Cowper

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

English Poet

Gordon B. Hinckley

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

American Clergyman

Focuses on plants that grow where people do not want them, often in gardens or fields.

Unwanted Plants

Don't confuse with garden plants. Weeds are generally unwanted and invasive.

Common Misuse

Carries negative connotations, often symbolizing neglect or lack of care.

Negative Connotations

Informal term for marijuana, widely recognized in casual speech.

Colloquial Usage

Often used in slang, especially in discussions about drug use or culture.

Slang Context

Used to describe the action of removing weeds, a common gardening chore.

Gardening Activity

Implies ongoing care to maintain a garden or field in good condition.

Regular Maintenance

Metaphorically means to remove undesirable elements from any group or collection.

Figurative Meaning

Implies a careful selection process to remove what is not required or wanted.

Selectivity

 So we have to be understanding so we can protect these for the next generation because these could disappear if we don't do anything about it. So it's really important to understand that. So to use Indigenous knowledge in today's world, it's just important to open up your eyes, you know, stop calling everything a weed because that just means you don't know what it is.

Sean Sherman: Why aren't...

 they would get muscled out by fast-growing streptococcus before they could even initiate cell division. So that's why we never find them in our throats. Perhaps the fact that the deep subsurface is so boring is actually an asset to these microbes. They never get washed out by a storm. They never get overgrown by weeds.

This deep-sea mystery is...

 Now, massive disturbance at this scale is known to affect hydrological cycles, degrade wildlife habitat, and emit greenhouse gases back into the atmosphere, which creates more disturbance and more tree diebacks. Not only that, we're continuing to plant one or two species and weed out the aspens and birches.

How trees talk to each...

 important and also you know sacrifice they have to show that they're willing to sacrifice for the club the men attend regular training sessions and wait a year before becoming full-fledged members Tankersley uses this time to weed out prospects who aren't truly dedicated to the cause we're back wide down

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 So, effective hiring and screening and team building is not about bringing in the givers; it's about weeding out the takers. If you can do that well, you'll be left with givers and matchers. The givers will be generous because they don't have to worry about the consequences.

Are you a giver or a...

 in order to ease replication efforts. The peer review process can also be strengthened to more efficiently weed out weak papers prior to publication. And we could temper the pressure to find big results by publishing more papers that fail to confirm the original hypothesis,

Is there a reproducibilit...

 else and my family was just too poor to help me play that game so I was faced with a pretty real crisis of identity in this new scene where there's more blacktop than treetops man I just didn't know who I was so I smoked weed for the

What commercialization...

 Nowadays, we avoid such agricultural catastrophes with the help of pesticides. Those are a range of manmade chemicals that control insects, unwanted weeds, funguses, rodents, and bacteria that may threaten our food supply.

Do we really need...

 what's important just what's easiest to find and what they found is that sheet with her life a weed without a ground that she could

Expanding our definition...

 as they move to the swamp in search of fresh grazing they break pathways through the weeds