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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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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I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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You have to try to grow between every fight: get back in the gym and keep working hard and find the areas that you need to work on. See what you did wrong and work on it.
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Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.
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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.
