William O. Douglas Quotes
There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that fact, nor is he subject to any disability, no matter what his race or color. Whatever his race, an applicant has a constitutional right to have his application considered on its individual merits.
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.
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To do more, is not necessarily to do better.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that fact, nor is he subject to any disability, no matter what his race or color. Whatever his race, an applicant has a constitutional right to have his application considered on its individual merits.
