Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I just want to do my job.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
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I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.
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I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.
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I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.
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Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
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I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision.
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The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.
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Some people are jerks, and some people aren't.
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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I am terribly saddened to learn of the passing of Harry Dalton. He was one of the great general managers of our generation. I was fortunate to have him serve as general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers from 1978 through 1991.
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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
