David W. Orr Quotes
Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.
David W. Orr
Quotes to Explore
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
Ursula Burns
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I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.
Adam Peaty
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As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
Camille Paglia
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It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
Damian Loeb
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
Barbara Ann Scott
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
Ralph Adams Cram
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I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.
Larry Wilcox
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I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.
Wale
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Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
Felicia Day
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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I am entering into the truth, into nature.
Paul Gauguin
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.
Rachel Kushner
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At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. Poetry still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.
Blake Morrison
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Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.
David W. Orr
