William O. Douglas Quotes
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.William O. Douglas
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
Ferdinand Marcos -
From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
Damon Lindelof -
Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
Kate Christensen -
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Samantha Power -
When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
Sally Rand -
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
Kate Christensen -
I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
Yelawolf -
I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
Laura Linney -
Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
Laura Benanti -
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
Aasif Mandvi -
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
Gary Johnson
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walt Alston -
I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.
Dalai Lama -
Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
Walt Alston -
I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
Dan Hill -
Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen -
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
Carl Hiaasen -
I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
Venus Williams -
Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, 'turn on and drop out, man' - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.
John Lennon The Beatles -
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
George Papandreou -
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.
William O. Douglas