David W. Orr Quotes
A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
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Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
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When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
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I'm deeply saddened by a sense that whites are still superior in this country, in some sense, that if you sit at a restaurant, they're served before a Kenyan is served. If you go through customs, a white person is going to have an easier time going through customs.
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I don't do anything in a vindictive manner. Look at my 14-year track record in Gujarat. People don't vote me to power to take revenge.
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That which was at first bound, cast out and rent by many and various beaters will be respected and honoured, and its precepts will be listened to with reverence and love.
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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
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To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
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Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
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'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.
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We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
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Sometimes reality T.V. can be stressful.
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Surround yourself with people you like and respect; surround yourself with people you just want to be around and keep making things.
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God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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Really being able to harness my mental approach has kind of taken me to the next level, and obviously maturing as a player and a teammate and as a person. Those are things that are necessary to achieve success in this game. There's no other way around it.
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My career is really, really important, and I love it, but the life highs - like seeing my son graduate - need to me to be more important than the career highs, which are fleeting.
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A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.
