Carole Nelson Douglas Quotes
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
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When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.
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In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama was praised for reversing it, even though his decision was arguably just as political.
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I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.
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As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.
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I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.
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I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
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Fear is the enemy of logic.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
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I would have loved to have met Roger Federer.
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I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.
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I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!
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Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.
