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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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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Potato overboard!
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Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.
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Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I said, "Thank you," and then they said to me, "Could you talk some more?" And I said, "Why?" and they answered, "Most of us are in solitary confinement, so the moment you finish talking, they take us back to our cells. We like hanging out here together."
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I don't have a problem with any defenders. I've always played against great defenders.
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Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.
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You can't conserve what you haven't got.
