Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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I love doing kids' films.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.
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You don't want to be too hot in the club. And ambience is important - no fog machines.
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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
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You alone are enough.
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.
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Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.
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People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.
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A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
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Sometimes, I tell them more than they wanted to know.
