Douglas Jerrold Quotes
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.
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A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: 'How could one so beautiful be so base?'
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It feels great to wake up feeling healthy, awake and alert. I love waking up in the morning, taking a
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I love the Beatles, but I don't listen to them at all regularly. Most of my friends are bigger Beatles fans than I am. I respect them, and I love them - 'Abbey Road' is probably one of my favorite albums, but I don't think I've ever listened to the 'White Album' the whole way through.
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A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
