Douglas Tompkins Quotes

When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits.

Douglas Tompkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1943 - December 8, 2015

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I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge.

Melvyn Bragg

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There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.

Melanie Laurent

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But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.

John Lurie

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The last thing I want to appear is remotely jaded or bitter, which it could come across the wrong way.

Matthew Williamson

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I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

Russell Peters

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If you're a lay person listening to jazz, you don't necessarily understand everything that's happening within the form. But you get the sense of it, the feel of it, because you're getting to hear something that develops right in front of your face.

Jason Moran

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Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.

Josh Duhamel

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To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

Jonathan Ive

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Bands like Culture Club and artists like me, you tend to concentrate on the live arena because that's where you can be your most authentic. That's where you have the most power.

Boy George

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Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

Philip Treacy

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In the old days, I'd have to go as a company, buy computer resources, buy servers, buy storage, and lash it all together. It took a long time to stand up. Now, if I need, I can go to Amazon or Rackspace and buy some computer power nearly instantaneously.

Peter Levine

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No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.

Timothy White

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