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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The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
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What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?
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I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.
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My favorite time at NPR has been 'Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!' It was loads of fun and gave me a chance to meet and talk in person to the audiences that I felt I had known for so many years on the air.
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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
