William O. Douglas Quotes
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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And learn the luxury of doing good.
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If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
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Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
