Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
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Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.
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The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.
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Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.
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Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.
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When we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us. When we don’t get hired, or we lose something dear to us, it’s hard to take a step back and notice the bigger picture. Often Allah takes things away from us, only to replace them with something greater.
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Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
