Douglas Tompkins Quotes

If you take guys like Exequiel Bustillo, the architect who designed the early park infrastructure in Argentina, or the great American architects, these guys had a vision that thrust the national park idea into the public eye.

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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Jesse Owens

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Sitting down with the insightful Gabourey Sidibe was a wonderful experience.

Amanda de Cadenet

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Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - they're excluding me or including me in something with that question. It is the first thing agents in Los Angeles ask me. And then I'd hear: 'You're not black enough, you're too black, you're Italian - no, you're Spanish.'

Roma Maffia

PeopleMeBlackEnoughYouGo

Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display.

Rupert Graves

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I had a few celebrity crushes when I was growing up, including Eddie Kendricks from the Temptations. And I loved Marvin Gaye - I thought he was everything and instantly fell for his voice.

Dianne Reeves

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One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

Christopher Hitchens

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My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.

Chris Messina

TeacherDanceSchoolMeMomShe

I do watch what I eat, but I don't make it myself. When I eat out, I just have to make sure the things I buy are good and healthy.

Anton du Beke

GoodMyselfHealthyEatOutBuy

My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.

Anne Robinson

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The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Phyllis George

MoneyStillMostDevicePopular

Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain.

Philip Hammond

ChangeMeThinkRulesSayWant

What countries must do to join the World Trade Organization is precisely what they must do to become productive and democratic: accept the rule of law, reduce corruption, and become open, accountable, and transparent.

Richard N. Haass

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