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'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

  

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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.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  

  Ian Hunter
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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.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
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• But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Live
  • Fact
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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.

  

  Jack Gilbert
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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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• Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

  

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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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• I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

  

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• I've always tried to learn from the greats: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Ghandi, Buddha, Jesus... it's just that there's this tremendous pressure to correct all the things they got wrong.

  

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• Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

  

  John Carroll Lynch
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• When you're doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it's considered a big cast.

  

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• I'm our team's youngest member, but me and Jongup hyung both do maknae things together.

  

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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.

  

  Doug Henning
  • Wonder
  • Tiger