Galen Rowell Quotes
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.
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A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes and news items of the article it accompanies.
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I lived at home off and on until I was 37. I have about a million college credits. I'd worry about writing about anyone else because I'd be invading their privacy, but you can use your mom and dad and their dog for everything!
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Sometimes on Broadway, you don't know who the investors are, and you end up making a million dollars for somebody awful.
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L'histoire, encore que mensongère,Contient des vérités qui servent de leçons.Tout parle en mon ouvrage, et même les poissons.Ce qu'ils disent s'adresse à tout tant que nous sommes;Je me sers d'animaux pour instruire les hommes.
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The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
