Douglas Tompkins Quotes
I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.
Douglas Tompkins
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
Ogden Nash
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
Ian St. John
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Barack Obama
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
Eddie Albert
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
Oksana Baiul
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Oh, yeah, I've seen 'Seinfeld' 1,000 times.
J. B. Smoove
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
Kate Bush
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Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
Ira Sachs
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
Ralph Macchio
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You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?
Kim Cattrall
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As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
Mary Quant
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Justice is a constant uprightness in words and in deeds.
Alexander Hume
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There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
Federica Mogherini
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Writing freezes speech and in so doing gives birth to the grammarian, the logician, the rhetorician, the historian, the scientist - all those who must hold language before them so that they can see what it means, where it errs, and where it is leading.
Neil Postman
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I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.
Douglas Tompkins
