Douglas Tompkins Quotes
I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.
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When I hosted 'Win, Lose or Draw,' it was always fascinating to me that no one knew where anything was when they had to draw a destination.
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My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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San Francisco fucking rules. I am so proud of my home town for legalizing gay marriage, sending gays and lesbians down to the city by the Bay that was built on rock and roll to tie the knot.
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If you're making all your money simply betting on interest rates, that's not a business. Flow is a business. On the outside, they look the same for a while. But when you dig into them, no, they weren't exactly the same.
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In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
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I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.
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Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.
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I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.
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Junk food drags you down.
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The untold secret driving the obstruction to Obama's economic equality agenda is this: The opposition isn't really battling Big Government. The opposition is protecting an economic system that's putting more and more of the earned income out of reach for those aspiring to better themselves.
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Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
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There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.
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We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.
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I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.
