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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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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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Whenever a work's structure is intentionally one of its own themes, another of its themes is art.
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Slowness is a beauty
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For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.
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My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England.
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I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.
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Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?
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Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.
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Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.
