Douglas Tompkins Quotes
I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.
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A thrown-stone trajectory is a good metaphor for so many phenomena: the curve of an event, any event; the curve of a life, any life; the curve of a hypothesis; the curve experienced in the manufacture of a work of art; the curve of interest experienced in the manufacture of a catalogue.
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I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.
