Douglas Tompkins Quotes

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

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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Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

John Cage

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If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.

Maureen McCormick

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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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David Blaine, I think, was the first TV magician to really turn the camera around and make it about the spectator's experience. That's really what magic is all about.

Michael Carbonaro

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And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

John Zorn

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I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

Trent Reznor

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Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

Tommy Lee

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I don't actually believe in the genre of comedy. Sometimes when I watch comedies, I can't see the soul of the show. I want to be able to laugh and cry. That is where the magic is. I'm trying to get to that place.

Michaela Coel

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One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

Luis Walter Alvarez

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I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.

Jason Mraz

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Even if you're an optimist, there's some part of you that just tries to toughen up and be pragmatic and go, 'This isn't gonna happen. This isn't gonna happen.' I really felt that way through the process of 'Korra' because I knew 'Avatar,' and I knew how wonderful it was, and I was so terrified.

Janet Varney

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I love it when people know what they like and what looks good on them.

Brad Goreski

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