Stephen Douglas (Stephen Arnold Douglas) Quotes
I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.
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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
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If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
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Vegas is kind of crazy because there's so much going on. Everyone goes there to be entertained.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
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Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
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I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.
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The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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The way Jughead talks to Archie and vice versa is very much the way I would talk to my twin.
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The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.
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It is understandable that the Fed injects cash to avoid the collapse of the stock market, but basically it is bad policy for monetary authorities to intervene to save speculators from bankruptcy. This is not their role.
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I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.
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Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what they need to feel when they walk out of the theater. That's your job, to literally put this book on film, you won't make a good movie, you'll do no service to anyone.
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I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever.
