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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People always called The Cure gloomy, but listening to The Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.
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It's weird that the world sees modeling as a negative. It just blows my mind how many people think that because I was a model, I think I'm pretty and that I can use my looks to get ahead. I'm not pretty!
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Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
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Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.
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Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.
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The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.
