Doug Baldwin Quotes
I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don't know what I don't know.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
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I use the media the way the media uses me-to attract attention. Once I have that attention, it's up to me to use it to my advantage.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.
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I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don't know what I don't know.
