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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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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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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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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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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I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.
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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
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For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.
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Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street.
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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.
