William O. Douglas Quotes
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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I was a tomboy.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I never said half the things I said.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.
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One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.
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It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
