David W. Orr Quotes
There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.'
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
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If a top management team cannot clearly articulate the five or six fundamental industry trends that most threaten its firm's continued success, it is not in control of the firm's destiny.
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Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.
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I didn't want to write a book as Stephen King's son, because all I did was get born, and that's not much of an accomplishment. If that was the reason my book was published, it wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on. I wanted to do my own thing.
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I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.
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There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.
