Derrick Jensen Quotes
I quit work two weeks later-having sold another eighty of my hours-and knew I could never again work a regular job.

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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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I feel like being an actor it is a great way to do your job and be a parent, because you have a lot of freedom. You have a job and then the job ends and than maybe you don't have another job for a while or maybe you chose not have another job for a while. For an actor, it's like maybe you don't see your kid for two weeks while you are filming but then you might have three months off where you are at home every day and picking him up from school. I find it's a great thing.
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.
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It's just a personal challenge for him to attack the whole team.
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I quit work two weeks later-having sold another eighty of my hours-and knew I could never again work a regular job.