Douglas Tompkins Quotes

There's no doubt whatsoever that there's no future in capitalism. It's probably no more than 500 years old, and it's demonstrating over and over again that it is destroying the world.

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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Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.

John Cornwell

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After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

Maureen O'Hara

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Every week, as a staff, you put a plan together and put your players in position to make plays.

Jeff Fisher

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If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.

Jeff Greene

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If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

Steve Coogan

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Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

Sinbad

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I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

Tommy Franks

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A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

Roy H. Williams

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I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.

Michael Learned

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I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.

Liz Murray

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I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket.

Julia Sweeney

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When we discover New Earth - a planet we could call home - the question of the 'plurality of worlds' will come front and center, reminding us yet again that we are not the center of the universe.

Dimitar Sasselov

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