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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Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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When you're in the field, you just focus on the task at hand.
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I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.
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There really wasn’t much in a man’s life that mattered. But those few things mattered terribly.
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I'm just a tough old woman.
