William O. Douglas Quotes
The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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I just want to do my job.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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To survive is to win.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
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One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she's mean.
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It's so funny when I do TV shows and they're like, "Yeah, you gotta keep it clean, man." I'm like, "How the fuck do I keep it clean? My shit is called 'Fuck It.' Get the fuck out of here. Don't put me on the show if you want me to keep it clean."
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The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.
