Jay Griffiths Quotes

All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.

Jay Griffiths

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You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

Joe Paterno

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By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.

John O. Brennan

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I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.

Ann Voskamp

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We never want to update 'Black Watch,' because it's about a moment in time, and through that moment, it manages to speak about Afghanistan and all other wars. This play is 'about' Iraq, but it's actually about every war that's ever been or will ever be.

John Tiffany

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There's no doubt I'm emotional.

Sidney Crosby

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My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

Robin Yount

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It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

Rupert Friend

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The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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I think my very best work came out when I was about 60, not when I was 20. I was publishing all the time when I was in my 20s, and some of those poems I still like. And there were a few after 60, and in my 70s, that I like. But they became fewer and fewer.

Donald Hall

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Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

Christopher Walken

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One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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Kanye West, I love you. You might not have known, but I have said in other interviews that you're my hero.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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