William O. Douglas Quotes
Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.
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I believed I was invincible.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.
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If I don't do some sort of exercise in a day, I do get in a terrible mood. That's always been true.
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I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.
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Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the time. It's so serious and so real and so tangible that you don't want to taint it with anything other than the thing itself. I was tickled pink with my very zen self, walking around saying that I made a record because I wanted to make a record. That's so beautiful. It's like a haiku poem. That takes away all the tension and the expectation. I just want to try to do something interesting.
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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.
