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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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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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 was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
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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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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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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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Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.
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I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.
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But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
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Is it not shameful to accept God's blessings as though they were our due without thinking of the heart of the Giver, who planned them all in love for us, and giving Him the response of love and gratitude?
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I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.
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You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.
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Civilization can never be sustainable.
