Douglas Tompkins Quotes

It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.

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• The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • True
  • Words
  • Moral

• I have lived a carnal life.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Lived
  • Carnal

• The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Money
  • Survive

• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Celebrity
  • Ways

• All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Saying

• Some media outlets refer to 'protesters' and 'militia members,' not 'terrorists,' even though armed antigovernment extremists seizing federal property and expressing a desire to kill and die is a textbook description of domestic terrorism.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Die
  • Desire
  • Media

• I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Want
  • Man
  • Relationship

• When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Animal
  • Take
  • Middle East

• I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • English
  • Back
  • Wing

• Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Watching

• Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Amazing
  • Beach
  • Tough

• Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Help
  • Game
  • Complaining

• When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movies
  • Young
  • Level

• I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Important
  • Wish

• The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Life
  • Struggle

• Usually, when you get early versions of scripts, they are not very good. I found 'Borgen' amazing from the very first read-through because of how fast-paced and gripping it was. It felt more international because of the way it didn't dwell on the characters' personal lives as many Danish shows used to, but still, nobody thought it would travel.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Good
  • Amazing
  • Travel

• Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

  

  Mark Skousen

• 'Thank you' is often an admission that you needed something that wasn't being fulfilled or you couldn't do on your own, so you needed someone else. There is also guilt. We think, 'Well, too much time has gone by, and it doesn't matter,' but it does. It always matters.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Time

• You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • People
  • Great
  • Remember

• I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Crazy
  • Did
  • Romeo And Juliet

• Older Americans are perfect telemarketing customers, analysts say, because they are often at home, rely on delivery services, and are lonely for the companionship that telephone callers provide.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Home
  • Perfect
  • Lonely

• I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

  

  Tony Scott
  • People
  • Different
  • Language

• It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.

  

  Douglas Tompkins