Derrick Jensen Quotes
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.
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I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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I know everything about Michael Jordan.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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There's a lot of goals I've set in the WWE that I want to accomplish. I'm always setting goals for myself, and someday I want to be in the Hall of Fame.
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I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don't derive any pleasure from running people down.
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The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
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I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.
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I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.
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I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.
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Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.
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Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.
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We humans, just like the animals in our zoos, were born into bodies whose workings are both mechanistically predictable and unfathomably complex. Put in lots of sugar, and we'll get fat and sick. Confine our movement, and we'll get weak and antsy. Give us some manageable problems with which to grapple, and we'll cheer up.
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I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.
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Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.
