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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.
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I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.
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It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.
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Down the country, people in rural areas are struggling to get a speed of even 1 MB, not much better than the old dial-up system we used to have when the system was in relative infancy.
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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.
