"I'm the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I'm the one who says we need to try harder, improve the quality of our products, become a part of the political process, help elect people who are good for the environment."

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Yvon Chouinard

#People Quotes #Political Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Places that are empty of you are empty of life.”

Source : Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2000). “The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s”, Scala Books
“You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.”

Source : "Music Of The O.c.: Interview With Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. March 22, 2005.
“Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.”
“Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.”
“It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.”
“If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.”
“I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.”
“In India everything has a use and a value.”

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