Douglas Tompkins Quotes
If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.Douglas Tompkins
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
Rafael Nadal -
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
Dale Archer -
The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
RaeLynn -
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian -
I never was a very good singer.
Jackson Browne -
You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
J. B. Smoove
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold -
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King -
I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
Fiona Dourif -
Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
Gabrielle Reece -
Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
Lapo Elkann
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Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
Ted Allen -
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Patrice Motsepe -
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
Taylor Swift -
I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
Maggie Stiefvater -
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Carl von Clausewitz
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I could use a little extra cash.
John Paulson -
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
Parker Palmer -
There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
Aaron Rodgers -
My golf game is lacking big time.
Sam Hunt -
The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations. This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP.
L. Ron Hubbard -
If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.
Douglas Tompkins