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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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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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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Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
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A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in northern Ontario.
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I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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A sense of utter loneliness-loneliness inevitable, crushing, eternal, the loneliness of existence, encompassed by the infinite void of unconsciousness-enfolded him as a pall. Life lay like an incubus on his bosom. He shuddered at the thought that death might overlook him, and deny him its refuge.
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Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
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I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.
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Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.
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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
