William O. Douglas Quotes

I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

William O. Douglas

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• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.

  

  Xenophon
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Fire

• My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Remember
  • Mom
  • Always

• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
  • Church
  • Religion

• To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Live
  • Success
  • Win

• I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
  • Age
  • Gift

• Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Environment
  • Growth

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Universe
  • Balance
  • Unknown

• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Love
  • Really
  • Labor

• Europe can be saved.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Saved

• In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Important
  • Business
  • Know

• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • God
  • Children
  • Care

• I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Professional
  • My Life

• I'm an emotional person.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Person
  • Emotional

• He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Family
  • Order
  • Public

• When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Successful
  • Theory

• I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.

  

  Yao Ming
  • People
  • Player
  • Basketball

• I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.

  

  Brett Favre
  • Up

• I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • People
  • Literature
  • Ability