Derrick Jensen Quotes
I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.
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The Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness of the risk of heart disease. I think a lot of people don't realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women. So what we're doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.
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One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.
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My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.
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I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.
