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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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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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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It is so gratifying for me the degree to which the Minions have been embraced. It's almost unprecedented in the CG animated world. It's amazing. That's really all a creator hopes for, that their characters grow beyond them. It's like Darth Vader and Batman. They've gotten bigger than their creators.
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A lot of sci-fi shows are very cold, too concerned with hardware.
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I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.
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I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.
