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've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just trying to navigate growing up poor in an overpoliced environment with a single mother and a father who was in and out of prison.
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Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history.
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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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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.
