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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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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At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
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I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it - it's only clothes.
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The two candidates have very different visions of America. Donald Trump's is very dark: Things are not going well. There are dark days ahead unless you make a change, and he's the one to fix it.
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Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.
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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
