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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The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.
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Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.
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See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.
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There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
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I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.
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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.
