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 guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.
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Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.
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I like to entertain at home, to live beautifully but comfortably.
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My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.
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Holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome.
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Civilization can never be sustainable.
