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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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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Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation.
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Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
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By all means, then, let us have psalms and days of dedication anew to the old causes
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I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.
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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.
