Douglas Tompkins Quotes
If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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I can't get carried away with having a good time because everyone, especially the young guys, have to know there's a time and place for everything.
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The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.
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No movement calls migrant workers oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.
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The best feeling is when you finish a point at the net.
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If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.
