Yvon Chouinard Quotes
You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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I don't like controversy.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I love New York. Love it.
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We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
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Congress has become so dysfunctional that more and more of a burden is placed on the agencies to fill in the gaps. And the gaps get bigger and bigger because they're not constantly refreshed and tweaked.
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I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.
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You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.
