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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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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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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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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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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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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South Koreans would rather see their state's security compromised than risk their own prosperity. Let’s not overestimate South Koreans’ attachment to their own state, which a sizable but influential minority still considers illegitimate.
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I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.
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The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.
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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.
