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 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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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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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!
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From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.
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The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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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.
