David F. Houston Quotes
The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.
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The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.
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Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.
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Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.
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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
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The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.
