William O. Douglas Quotes
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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I want to be a major force.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
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My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
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No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?
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People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!
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We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.
