Yvon Chouinard Quotes
Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I can paint in jail.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
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I sleep better on the road than I do at home. I'm used to sleeping in a million different hotels. I'm not home very often, so when I get home, I have things I want to do.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
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If Gore had been elected president, right now he would just be finding that last lesbian quadriplegic for the Special Forces team.
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Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.
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That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.
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A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.
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Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.
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Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.
