Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.
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I didnt at first because horror movies scared me too much, but I really do love the genre and its a playground where you can really be artistic and create ideas in the minds of the audience and portray the unreal. Its very cool experimentation ground for a filmmaker.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
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You must work for yourself; for what you reject may be as important for you to have seen and thought about, as what you adopt.
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I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
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Democrats cannot conceive of 'hate speech' towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.
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I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.
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It doesn't matter who other people are saying the favourite is; I'm still going in to win the gold medal.
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Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.
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about Nothing Else Matters James always wanted to be perceived as this guy who is very confident and strong. And for him to write lyrics like that - showing a sensitive side - took a lot of balls.
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A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.
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Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.
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Travel's the great educator, especially for the girls. You can't put a value on it.
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The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
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You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
