Douglas Tompkins Quotes
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
Eddie Marsan
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
Jackson Browne
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
Maceo Parker
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
Ted Nugent
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It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.
Vidya Balan
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If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones.
Barbara Holland
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I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.
Jim Barksdale
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I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.
Danny Huston
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I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.
John Schneider
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For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy.
Lynsey Addario
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There are emotional relationships in any business.
Douglas Tompkins