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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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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.
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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.'
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Europe can be saved.
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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.
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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.
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I'm an emotional person.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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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.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I have survived so long because I've been blessed with talented and gracious colleagues and with a top brass who let me choose my topics every week and then allowed me to express opinions that were not always popular. Well, someone had to stand up to the yackety-yak soccer cult.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!
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I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes. I'd do a lot of things different if I could. I'd never, ever, get involved with surrogacy again. It's so weird.
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My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
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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.
