John Muir Quotes
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
Quotes to Explore
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.
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I'm all about risque - I love that stuff. I love to be creative - that's what the entertainment business is about.
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I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.
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Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought that's what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise.
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I don't look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They're all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it's part of mine.
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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
