Derrick Jensen Quotes
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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I hate competition.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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Presence is more than just being there.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
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My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.
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Having balanced nutrition is also very important to keep my body in shape and healthy.
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I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.
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My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home.
