William O. Douglas Quotes
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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I just want to do my job.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.
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I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.
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Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.
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Finally, as you walk the difficult path with others - as you lean into their strength - stay focused on forward motion. Learn from the past, yes, especially if there are choices you could have made differently - that's Wisdom 101. But you must also embrace the present and realize that you can't change the past. You must move forward with courage, not rushing things, but not staying fixated on whatever trauma has occurred.
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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
