As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.


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I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries....
GABBY DOUGLAS
When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the pri...
DOUGLAS CONANT
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buy...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float th...
TOM DOUGLAS
I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But i...
KYAN DOUGLAS
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
GABBY DOUGLAS
It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything...
GABBY DOUGLAS
I would love to be a role model.
GABBY DOUGLAS
I wear makeup pretty much every day. For training, I usually do a lighter base, a lighter blush and ...
GABBY DOUGLAS
My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a b...
GABBY DOUGLAS
You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
GABBY DOUGLAS
I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do tha...
GABBY DOUGLAS
Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
GABBY DOUGLAS
By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the ri...
GABBY DOUGLAS
Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrif...
GABBY DOUGLAS
I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and ...
GABBY DOUGLAS
You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and b...
GABBY DOUGLAS
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to g...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
JAMES DOUGLAS
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consent...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she j...
GABBY DOUGLAS
The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo...
TOM DOUGLAS
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS
My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to...
KIRK DOUGLAS
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All great...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boas...
DOUGLAS DUNN
Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into somet...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been wid...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together...
DOUGLAS JERROLD
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely wh...
DOUGLAS JERROLD
Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for...
DOUGLAS JERROLD
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece...
DOUGLAS WILDER
It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can ...
TOM DOUGLAS
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Time is bunk.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'tr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictu...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
DOUGLAS ADAMS