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 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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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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When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
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I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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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.
