Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.
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If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it - by zestfully living and loving every teeny-tiny, gorgeously-detailed minutiae moment!
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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
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Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
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Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
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In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.
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My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky about 1781 or 1782, where a year or two later he was killed by the Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
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I grew up in a French-dominated Catholic part of the country. I was an altar boy. I went to Catholic school. I have a cousin who is a priest - it's part of my DNA. It's kind of hard to separate me from the church, to try to say where one starts and the other stops.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I think I speak not too strongly when I say that a church in the land without the Spirit of God is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember you stand in somebody else's way; you are a tree bearing no fruit, standing where another fruitful tree might grow.
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I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
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I'm just a tough old woman.
