William O. Douglas Quotes
Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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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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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.
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You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.
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The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.
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Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?
