Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
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If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
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I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.
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It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.
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'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they think your character is, so you know you are asking for it. But that's the challenge.
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Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.
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I was at a really low point, thinking of going to university and doing a course because the music thing just wasn't happening for me. But I went on the show and...
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Were there really this many women in 1985 saying to their husbands, 'Gee, honey, I'd love to have random strangers masturbate to a jpeg image of me deepthroating a titanium dildo, but there's no medium for that. Guess we'll have to watch 'Falcon Crest.'
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The fundamental division of forms of life on Earth is not that between plants and animals, as is commonly assumed, but between prokaryotes-organisms composed of cells with no nucleus, that is, bacteria-and eukaryotes-all other life forms.
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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
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I am not a Hemingway aficionado.
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It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.
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He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
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In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.
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As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.
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I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.
