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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Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.
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You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.
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I am not a coach for the tackles, so I do not train them.
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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.
