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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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 think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one’s mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
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I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.
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Nothing is real but dreams and love.
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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.
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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
