Doug Henning Quotes
If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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Forgotten is forgiven.
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All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.
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Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.
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What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?
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No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.
