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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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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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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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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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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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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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 knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
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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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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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I say this all the time: Everyone can make a conscious choice to be a leader.
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I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything.
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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
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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.
