Derrick Jensen Quotes
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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I've been racketeered on.
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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.
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I always like to tell a story.
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I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
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Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.
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Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.
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From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
