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 don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
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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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leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
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Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.
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Michael Jackson did real damage in my overall life. I was a 12-year-old boy who was hurt by his family and ignored by people at school. Michael would sit and talk to me for hours and he would listen. Then he would get bored. The biggest thing that Michael's done to children is befriending the ones that are in need and then abandoning them
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I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.
