Douglas Tompkins Quotes
Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.
Quotes to Explore
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I will keep working hard!
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.
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Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.
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Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee - an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.
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Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
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Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.
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Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.
