Douglas Tompkins Quotes
Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.
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The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
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I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.
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Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.
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I think Michael Moore is a hero.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.
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In modelling, it's very hard to keep in touch with the people you knew when you started.
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I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.
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I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
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When Big Meech and everybody got indicted, hustling died. Keep it trill.
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Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.
