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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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.
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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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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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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.
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
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The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same interests are represented.
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Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
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It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
