Douglas Wood Quotes

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Two
  • Constitution
  • Taxes

• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Writing
  • You
  • Students

• The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • More
  • Communism
  • Crusade

• Men are every bit as gendered as women.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bit

• In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Son
  • Oppression
  • Crown

• As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • Never
  • Fight

• In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Business
  • Mirror

• I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Look
  • Jump
  • Step

• It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Know
  • Yourself
  • Easy

• Some people are brilliant on the first take, some people are brilliant on the fourth take, and when you are doing a group scene, you kind of have to figure that out.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Kind
  • Doing

• I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Shows
  • Favorite
  • TV Shows

• For me, I grew up doing kiteboarding where no girls are doing it, and you had to prove yourself. You just had to know that you could do it, too. It's the mentality you had to have to make it. I work hard like anyone else.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Work
  • Yourself

• I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Death
  • Style
  • Bored

• On how he met Jerry Cantrell, quoted in Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.

  

  Layne Staley

• N'attendez pas le Jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours.

  

  Albert Camus

• Studio heads seem to be getting the message that there is not only an audience out there, but there is a desire for people to see people of colour in central roles and in authoritative roles.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • Desire

• You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Spiritual

• There are people who are at fault for one or another problem. These people are very avaricious and self-serving. They're not doing it just to do it; they're doing it for the money. That money, they keep here. When you say, "We're going to find these people, these guilty people, the ones who are not only breaking laws but are also hurting their own fellow country people," and you say, "We're going to punish them, specifically, that's a step in the right direction."

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • People
  • Country
  • Guilty

• The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Work
  • Art
  • Crocodile

• And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Best

• Your life, in the end, is the sum total of how you spent your time.

  

  Cherie Carter-Scott
  • Life
  • Time
  • Ends

• I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

  

  Douglas Wood