Douglas Booth Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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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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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.
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A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
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People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.
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Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
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I would hope I was raised polite and charming.
