Derrick Jensen Quotes
I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is most important to me is to live in a world that is not being murdered.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.
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Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
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Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.
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According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, there are more than two million Americans with epilepsy. Half have what I have, idiopathic epilepsy, meaning there is no known cause for the seizures.
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Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class.
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I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is most important to me is to live in a world that is not being murdered.
