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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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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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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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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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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One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.
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I just want to swing a few lefts and a few rights for a couple of hundred mill in peace.
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I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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If I write the song, I get to name it.
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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.
