Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
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The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.
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Sexual scandals are especially effective against Republicans who can then also be accused of hypocrisy inasmuch as they're always spouting off about morality and junk like that. Of course, some personal issues such as former Klan membership or leaving the scene of a fatal accident are off limits for obvious reasons
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
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People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.
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While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.
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No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.
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“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.”
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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If we just stand at two opposite ends of the spectrum screaming in each other's face, we're never gonna get anything done. I don't agree with a Trump voter, but why do they feel like that? Yes, some of those people are racist and have hateful opinions, but some of those people voted for him because they felt completely left behind.
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Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
