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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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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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When you don't come from a film background, getting the right debut is important and difficult, as you don't have the sensibility to know what will work and what won't.
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My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish.
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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.
