Douglas Tompkins Quotes
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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 -
I have lived a carnal life.
Sam Kinison -
The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
Dambisa Moyo -
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
Sade Adu -
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
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
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
Natasha Leggero -
Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.
Natalie Gulbis -
Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.
Oliver Kahn -
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 -
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 -
The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.
Alan Watts
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'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 -
I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.
Charles R. Swindoll -
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 -
What I'm really interested in is this idea of a 'brain co-processor' - a device that can record from, and deliver information to, so many points in the brain, with a computational infrastructure in between - a computer that can process the information and compute exactly what needs to be restored.
Edward Boyden -
I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.
Bernard Ebbers -
You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.
Charisma Carpenter
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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
Plato -
I think they're quite amazing and he's a really good singer, so that's quite cool.
Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects -
I've hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That's my hobby. It's being able to do a movie like 'Chef,' where you don't get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that's worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid.
Jon Favreau -
I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.
Mike Leigh -
It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.
Douglas Tompkins