Douglas Leone Quotes
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
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An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.
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If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.
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Be good at something. It makes you valuable.
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I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.
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I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.
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The first thing I ever noticed about Miss Lyon was her incredible laziness. Laziness was my own specialty, & I did not like this competition. Dear me, I was to find out, in the course of time, that in the matter of laziness I was a runaway train on a down grade & she a-standing still. At my very laziest I could hear myself whiz, when she was around.
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I really ought to try and make a film that's a bit more cynical. But I don't think I'd know how to do it. I think what it is, is that if you're a film director, you're basically there because you enjoy manipulating people's emotions.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.
