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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I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks ranging from pillows to teddy bears. But through selective breeding over the past 6,000 years, alpacas have so diverged from their llama cousins as to become quite different animals.
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Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change.
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.
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It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea.
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In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.
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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.
