Douglas Tompkins Quotes
These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.Douglas Tompkins
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
Adam Draper -
I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
Vanilla Ice -
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace -
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Manfred Eigen -
Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
Haley Bennett
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
E. L. Konigsburg -
I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
Taylor Lautner -
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
Lance Morrow -
If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
Camille Paglia -
I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
S. Robson Walton -
Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
Foster Friess
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
Aaron Lazar -
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
Kate Beckinsale -
When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
Olaf Carlson-Wee -
You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
Laura Carmichael -
No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
Larry Hogan -
What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
Gary Lineker
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As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight ignorance of these tragic events.
Andy Dunn -
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.
Francis of Assisi -
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes -
Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
C. Wright Mills -
People need to work on what self-love is and redefining self-love... it comes from within: who you are and how you carry yourself in this world.
Ashley Nell Tipton -
These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.
Douglas Tompkins