Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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I want to be up front racing.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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I don't attend costume parties.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
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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.
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This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.
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I like to make super music instead of working with superstars.
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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.
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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.
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There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth...just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one.
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We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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You make money out of things people pay for.
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It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
