William O. Douglas Quotes
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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You were born as the one you are.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.
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As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
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A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
