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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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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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As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.
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In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.
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Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.
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If you see a tick on your body, be sure to remove it immediately. Use tweezers to pull the tick's body away from your skin, being careful not to crush the tick's body.
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If any one hearken with understanding to these sayings of mine many a deed worthy of a good man shall he perform and many a foolish deed be spared.
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Look at how fast technology is developing.
