Doug Henning Quotes
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.
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Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.
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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.
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Democrats hate Democrats most of all.
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When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
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When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells.
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
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I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'
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To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
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The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.
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I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.
