William O. Douglas Quotes
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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The good ideas will survive.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
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Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy.
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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
