William O. Douglas Quotes

Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.

William O. Douglas

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• You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Weird

• I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Loved
  • Because

• I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Never

• What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Peace
  • Sea
  • River

• My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Think
  • Judge
  • Too Much

• Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Why
  • Profit
  • E-Commerce

• It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • God

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Experience

• I don't trust President Obama with our records. I know you gave him a big hug, and if you want to give him a big hug again, go right ahead.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Trust
  • Hug

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• We can ask ourselves daily what we have done to make the world a better place, to make someone smile, to help someone to feel more secure, etc. It's the simple things which have the greatest effect. We must never underestimate the strength of a smile or act of kindness.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • World
  • Done
  • Help

• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Manipulation

• If you're making all your money simply betting on interest rates, that's not a business. Flow is a business. On the outside, they look the same for a while. But when you dig into them, no, they weren't exactly the same.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Money
  • Business

• Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

  

  Christo

• Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Service

• Regardless of whether we are in an upturn or a downturn, our goal is to ensure the Volkswagen Group reaches the top of the automotive industry.

  

  Martin Winterkorn

• 'Easy' is not a word I would ever use to describe touring.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer

• We're not going to win every single one.

  

  Jason Day
  • Single

• All bravery stands upon comparisons.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Bravery
  • Stands
  • Comparisons

• Since I was as young as I can remember, my dolls became my babies. I still have my teddy bear from childhood that I named Mama Bear because, actually, I wanted to be the mama.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Remember
  • Childhood

• I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Life
  • Believe

• Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.

  

  William O. Douglas