David F. Houston Quotes
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
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I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
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I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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You're going to watch a person suffer in agony while somebody's debating?
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The extremist people hate me. They speak about me in the mosques and pass round leaflets condemning me as un-Islamic.
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
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I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.
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I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.
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Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.
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Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
