Douglas Wood Quotes
There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!
Quotes to Explore
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.
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We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
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It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
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Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots making bad pitches, we don't let ourselves hit pitch good ones.
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There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!
