Douglas Tompkins Quotes

Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn't need.

Douglas Tompkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

Jimmy Wales

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Political courage requires clarity.

Joe Klein

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We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.

John Barrasso

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In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

John Lanchester

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I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.

Michael Ian Black

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Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

Steven Weinberg

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I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.

Roger Ailes

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I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

Russell Means

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I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.

Ruth Rendell

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For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

Mary Helen Bowers

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Congressional overseers and the public must be given appropriate insight into government activities as well as their legal rationale to ensure America's values are being upheld and our interests advanced.

Dianne Feinstein

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It's always been fun for me to play somebody else. I did drama class when I was younger. It kind of just happened. I never said, 'I want to act.' I just auditioned for the role, I got it. I was blessed with this opportunity to be in 'Earth to Echo.' It's fun for me; it's cool to do.

Astro

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