Douglas Tompkins Quotes
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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I'm not a negative person.
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Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.
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So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.
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Find a place where you add value to a community.
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The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.
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The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.
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I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.
