Julia Butterfly Hill (Julia Lorraine Hill) Quotes
You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
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I think, 'I'm tall, this is the body I was given, and I'm going to roll with it.'
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I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
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You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.
