Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
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There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.
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I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people more or less affiliated with, let's say, socialist ideas, and that was not my case.
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Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.
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I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.
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For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.
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My ideas for the future? To take over the world.
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That questionable superfluity-small beer.
