William O. Douglas Quotes
Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.William O. Douglas
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
Patricia Clarkson -
It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
Bat for Lashes -
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
Val Kilmer -
All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
Harold Pinter
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
Sam Underwood -
The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
Hank Johnson -
Actors don't have real value.
Uwe Boll -
I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
Gail Sheehy -
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
Dani Shapiro -
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Orson Scott Card -
Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
Adam Driver -
I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.
Sal Albanese -
Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
Natalie Dormer -
I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
Kacey Musgraves -
The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
Hank Sauer
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There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.
Carolyn Hart -
The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.
John Tillotson -
Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
Bahman Ghobadi -
Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
William O. Douglas