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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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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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 do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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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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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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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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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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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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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.
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In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.
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I thought so at first, but there is reason to believe that he is still alive. But that in itself does not constitute a problem.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.
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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.
