Yvon Chouinard Quotes
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
Natasha Richardson -
I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
Iggy Azalea -
I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
Sam Brownback -
'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
Aaron Johnson -
When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.
Ted Turner -
We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.
Naomi Klein
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I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.
Carly Patterson -
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
Cameron Bright -
Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
Jack Ma -
I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
Candice Bergen -
I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.
Wayne Dyer -
Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
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This is the key thing that has always been misunderstood about me. All this fucking crap they said I did ... I only did it because I believed I was playing the actual music that was appropriate and good to reflect that time and place. ... Frankly, I've always felt I was completely innocent.
Iggy Pop -
Are you Earthseed? Do you believe? Belief will not save you. Only actions guided and shaped by belief and knowledge will save you. BeliefInitiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
Octavia E. Butler -
Buddhism … is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or 'loyal opposition' to the culture in which it is involved.
Alan Watts -
It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.
Arthur Machen -
We are no longer tempted to condemn the spiritual aspects of our nature as illusory because of their lack of concreteness.
Arthur Eddington
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To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
Milton Glaser -
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
Bennett Cerf -
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
Edward Albert -
Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.
David Shore -
Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.
Yvon Chouinard