Derrick Jensen Quotes
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He's a fanatic.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.
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In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
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I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
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The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
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They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.
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I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.
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A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
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Even as our unwitting alterations to Earth's carbon and hydrological cycles slowly make storms more damaging, our ability to monitor our planet from space and make reliable short-term forecasts have equipped us enormously to withstand them.
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When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.
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Civilization can never be sustainable.
