William O. Douglas Quotes
The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.
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A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.
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Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
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The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.
