Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes
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I'm very content.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
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America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.
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We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
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I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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My anxiety has gotten worse as I've graduated and gotten older, and I still feel like 'Rookie' is a place where I can talk about that, and hopefully someone relates to it.
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I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.
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I'm really, really emotional.
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A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.
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When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.
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As far long-term aspirations, other than acting, I do want to direct a little bit. I want to get on the production side and eventually start a production company and maybe make some projects of my own.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.
