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I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.


Illeana Douglas

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This has made a lot of people...
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SCOTT DOUGLAS I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS Experience is the best teacher.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
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DOUGLAS COUPLAND I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford
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"Ah, well, I'm...
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KIRK DOUGLAS The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded prof...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find...
NORMAN DOUGLAS A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient...
DOUGLAS ENGELBART I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
DOUGLAS HURD I've never felt better.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
NORMAN DOUGLAS It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.
DOUGLAS MALLOCH When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have ...
DOUGLAS LURTAN The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing whe...
DOUGLAS EVERETT People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of thei...
NORMAN DOUGLAS How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
NORMAN DOUGLAS So, my argument is that as we become more and more scientifically literate, it
DOUGLAS ADAMS The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
NORMAN DOUGLAS It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefo...
DOUGLAS ADAMS For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins...
DOUGLAS ADAMS