Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
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To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.
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I can't bear the thought of retirement, and I haven't prepared myself for it. I don't play bridge, and I don't play golf. I do play tennis, but you can't do that every day of the week.
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I was clipped from behind, and my leg got caught between my opponent's legs. As we fell, my leg snapped. It was a spiral fracture. They had to put in a plate and five screws. It was a devastating moment: one minute I was on cloud nine, and then I was out for the season.
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Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.
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Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
