Douglas Tompkins Quotes
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I don't like controversy.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.
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I have always been a workaholic.
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We're going to live on the edge. My spikes will have chalk on them.... We're pretty aggressive within the law. As a professional, I'm troubled if I'm not using the full authority allowed by law.
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.
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I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.
