Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
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My tactic is to make eyes at someone.
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Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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Islam is about finding your own space.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.
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'They find us outlandish,' Lopez admitted. 'Extravagant. Eclectic. Unfathomable.'
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The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice until either the last boy and the last girl raise the Palestinian flag over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.
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I like to be a little bit of a rebel as an actor, so I am interested in the unpopular person and the lesser-understood character. It's a bold choice to try to find empathy in an unlikeable place in storytelling.
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We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.
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The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
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Quite often a man goes on for years imagining that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.
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When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.
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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.
