Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.
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There's something about the openness of the American people. Yes, we have our faults, but deep down, there's a goodness. America doesn't want to take over the world; in many ways, we don't want to be bothered by the rest of the world.
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I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it.
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Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation.
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I've known Timbaland for a while. We developed a friendship. He always said he would come back for me when he was ready, and he did. We've been rocking and rolling since we got together a couple of years ago. I'm blessed to be under his mentorship, and grateful he's opened so many doors for me.
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You have to stand up for some things in this world.
