Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
Norman Douglas
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.
Ted Sarandos
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People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.
Barack Obama
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I also love a quiet placeThat's green, away from all mankind;A lonely pool, and let a treeSigh with her bosom over me.
W. H. Davies
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
Lorin Maazel
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To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.
Jane Lindskold
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This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.
Bill O'Reilly
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I like to make super music instead of working with superstars.
J Balvin
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In the not-too-distant future, commerce is just going to be commerce. It won't be online commerce or offline commerce. It's just going to be commerce. And that will happen because of the phone.
Dan Schulman
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Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation - rules that promoted competition and kept the Internet 'unfettered by federal or state regulation.' Under this policy, a free and open Internet flourished.
Ajit Pai
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
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In one war, there are a thousand wars within that war--each one private, singular, inaccessible, a fragment, a piece of a larger whole, parallel yet forever separate. And all we do in life is struggle with our impoverished efforts to put our war into words. I don't believe most of us ever succeed in our translations. It's an art most of us never conquer. That's why we argue with one another. We're like countries--each of us clinging to our separate histories. We're fighting one another about our translations, about what really happened. Which is another kind of war.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
