Yvon Chouinard Quotes
But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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If you want to express yourself, it is difficult to be by yourself. You must have people around you who understand the same music. It is like being the chef d'orchestra. They need you, but you need them desperately.
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Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to prevent non-Catholics from having abortions if they feel that abortions are morally acceptable. They can certainly only argue for what they believe to be right in the court of public opinion and try to persuade people.
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I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.
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But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.
