Douglas Wilder Quotes
The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.
Quotes to Explore
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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I know what I want, and it's hard to delegate.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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I'm not changing because I'm part of a hit. People around me have changed in their attitude toward me, but I haven't changed. And I won't.
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You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.
