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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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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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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On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn't understand that you don't get another take ever. I'm finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.
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Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
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That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans.
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My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research priorities are explicitly focused on the Roomba of the future that will deliver on the promise of automatically cleaning your floor.
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The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it
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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
