"I'm trying mostly to ask questions. And not just trying to stake out a position on something, but also trying to define the stuff we agree on. I'm having battles with comment posters trying to insert a little sense of order so it's not just a long pissing match between the edges, which is what I think a lot of the blogosphere is tending to do."

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Source : Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.

Andrew Revkin

#Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes #Long Quotes

“If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.”
“If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can't live traditionally. Then your treaty is being violated. Obviously there are degrees of choice in terms of that decision to fight.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.”
“I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.”
“And the bottom line is we are who we are-we look a certain way, we talk a certain way, we walk a certain way. I strut because Iâ€™m a supermodel, and sometimes I gallop for fun. When we learn to accept that, other people learn to accept us. So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless youâ€™re a serial killer.”
“A friend is nothing but a known enemy.”
“Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.”
“Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.”

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