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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Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
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My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.
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I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.
