Keith Douglas Quotes
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.
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Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?
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There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.
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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
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It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.
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I am an 'other.' As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of 'otherness,' I've spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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I neither approve nor disapprove. I merely try to understand. Sexual freedom is as natural to newly tribalized youth as drugs.
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Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor.
