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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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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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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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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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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When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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Growing up in Boston and dancing in the streets, you see a lot of things.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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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.
