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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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
Natasha Trethewey
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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.
Dan Carter
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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.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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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.
Queen Latifah
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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.
Kaley Cuoco
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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.
Edith Stein
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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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.
Kate Hudson
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
Yani Tseng
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
Gary Oldman
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
Adam Carolla
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
Kamala Harris
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
Otto Penzler
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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.
Kage Baker
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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.
Quintilian
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You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.
Yul Vazquez
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If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
Kate Baldwin
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Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.
Fred F. Fielding
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Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.
Dave Foley
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I really personalized the pressure to make a good 'Toy Story' film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress.
Lee Unkrich
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Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.
Yvon Chouinard
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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
Norman Douglas