Douglas Tompkins Quotes
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'
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Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.
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Look at how fast technology is developing.
