Derrick Jensen Quotes
If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I want to have a long career.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.
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Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
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Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela's side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa's first free elections.
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If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.
