Douglas Tompkins Quotes
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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American election was really personal for Putin because he believed that Clinton is a personal enemy. He genuinely believed she was behind the Moscow protests in 2012, 2011.
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My hair grows into a fuzz ball - I just wanted it to grow downwards rather than outwards - but then I realized I couldn't play guitar with it that way. I couldn't do anything day-to-day without my hair getting in my mouth or my eyes or my food, so I just started tying it back, long before I knew what a man bun was.
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A man's work and the conditions under which it is performed are tremendous factors in determining his character.
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I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.
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I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.
