Yvon Chouinard Quotes
A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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As a great employer, one of things we prize is political consistency and clear policy.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.
