Derrick Jensen Quotes
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.Derrick Jensen
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
Joanne Rowling -
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
Ira Glass -
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
Randy Houser -
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
Fidel Castro -
I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
Yu Chui Yee -
I have disassociated myself from that book.
Uta Hagen
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I'll say anything to live.
Rachel Weisz -
I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
Tatum O'Neal -
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
Hans Hofmann -
I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.
Karine Vanasse
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
Vanessa Bayer -
I did the Vines first, and then I chose Instagram because the filters were better, and you could post the best picture of yourself, which I figured would help my modeling career.
Cameron Dallas -
I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
Halldor Laxness -
I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.
Harmony Korine -
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
Wally Schirra -
The law is cruel.
Jack Kevorkian
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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy -
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco -
Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.
Franz Kafka -
My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
Jack Roy -
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
Derrick Jensen