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

• 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

• '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

• I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved over here, a crushing sense of low-level guilt every day of our lives. Question to ask: Where has God put me right now? I need to say no to a whole bunch of other things because if I don't say no I can't say yes to others.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no work out there,' then black actors are like, 'Are you kidding me?'

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • Work
  • Black
  • Period

• Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Rock
  • Politics
  • Rock And Roll

• Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Pain
  • Error
  • Photographer

• As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Mystery
  • Conservative
  • Murder

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

  

  Douglas Tompkins