William O. Douglas Quotes
Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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There are other kinds of joy found in other places in the world, but there is no place where you can find Christian joy except in Christ.
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I'm not an expert on the arms race.
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We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.
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Dubois was the first black American to graduate from Harvard. He was accepted within the northern white intellectual circles as one of the 'best of his race.' As an avowed socialist, he was the only black member of the original 19 wealthy socialist founders of the NAACP.
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Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
