Douglas Lain Quotes
What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I was a tomboy.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
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You have to go where the good writing is.
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I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
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All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
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What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.
