Derrick Jensen Quotes
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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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Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.
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I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.
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Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.
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Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
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ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being - the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.
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From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
