Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
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I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
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Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.
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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
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In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
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In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losersI used to watch 'em through the glass.Well I'd stand outside at closing timeJust to watch her walk on past.Unlike all the other ladies, she looked so young and sweet.As she made her way alone down that empty street.Down on Mainstreet.
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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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We use the block chain to share value, just like Internet protocol lets us share communication. Our goal is to build a global, international bank that is instant, global, and free. Sending payments should be as easy as sending an email.
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There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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It's sort of cathartic - the naked exposure - don't you think? You couldn't do it voluntarily - could you? It's under duress - so somehow legitimate. Circumstances beyond our control. I think I enjoyed that.
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You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.
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I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in hospital having tests done, but they couldn't find out what was wrong. They discovered that one of my kidneys wasn't working properly, and it had scarred. I had to have 32 injections in my arm in the morning and evening to try and make me better.
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So Am I' is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in - just celebrating what really makes you different.
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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
