Douglas Tompkins Quotes

If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.

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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You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.

John Corbett

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Comedian sort of enjoys the darkness because, essentially, he's a thug. He's just not a nice guy.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

Jean Renoir

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In truth, I'm not really a cat person. Seamus, the wonder dog, still deeply mourned by all who knew him, was just about the only pet I've ever really loved.

Michael Dirda

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The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

John T. Flynn

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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Robert Frost

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I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

Michael Palin

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It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon.

Michael Ritchie

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It's going to take a while before we see a real shift in the students and the dancers that are going into professional companies because it takes so many years of training, but I do think that there's a new crop of dancers, of minority dancers that are entering into the ballet world.

Misty Copeland

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So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

Louis Farrakhan

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By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

Sheri L. Dew

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I have no fears when it comes to my hair or clothes.

Selma Blair

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