Derrick Jensen Quotes
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we will need to understand and change the social and economic conditions that cause them.
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Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
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If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
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It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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We've got to stop pandering and start leading.
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I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
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Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.
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The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
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I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
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You know it has all the kind of fun stuff. It has the countermeasures - we always talk about the countermeasures because people are like, "What the heck is countermeasures?" You know if I shot a missile at it, flares would pop out of those holes and stop the missile from hitting it.
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Much as you would like, you are not going to change people who feel it's part of their religious commitment to 'save' you.
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The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.
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I ride really bad when I overthink things.
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If we wish to stop the atrocities, we will need to understand and change the social and economic conditions that cause them.
