James Douglas Quotes

France is a pretty stable democracy, but incidents occur. And I was pleased to have police accompaniment.

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• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
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• I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  

  Felicity Huffman
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• I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.

  

  Randy Falco
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• 'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.

  

  Taylor Hicks
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• I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Life
  • Confidence
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• At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Phase
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• A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Plan
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• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Death
  • Night

• It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Up
  • Right
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• Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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• I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

  

  Uzo Aduba
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• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Wanted
  • Early
  • Figured

• Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Long
  • Political
  • Change

• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

  Adam Driver
  • More
  • I Can
  • Strengths

• The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love. That's not us. There's eros, which is sexual love. There's philia, which is brotherly love. And then there's the highest form. Agape.” He pronounced it “aga-pay.” “That's transcendental love, like when you place the other person above yourself.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Family
  • Love
  • Person

• I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • America

• War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Work
  • Different
  • Trying

• From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public employment system), and the debate was as misframed as would be a debate between the private or public ownership of slaves.

  

  David P. Ellerman
  • Democracy
  • Economic
  • Capitalism

• France is a pretty stable democracy, but incidents occur. And I was pleased to have police accompaniment.

  

  James Douglas
  • Pretty
  • Democracy
  • Police