Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
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Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
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I was always the weirdo at school.
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The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.
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I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.
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The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.
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Any new dominant communications medium leads to a new information ecology in society that inevitably changes the way ideas, feelings, wealth, power and influence are distributed and the way collective decisions are made.
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I slept with this girl, and in the morning I asked her if she wanted breakfast in bed. She said one pig in the blanket was enough.
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What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
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The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough.
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You can't conserve what you haven't got.
