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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My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
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What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.
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All devices should just sip power and be charged like a calculator is, with a small solar cell. No power adaptors. It's easy to put a solar cell into a device, but it's not powerful enough to drive today's cell phones or laptops. They need too much power to run.
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I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.
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Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.
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I'm just a tough old woman.
