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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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.
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I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.
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Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?
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I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.
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I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.
