Doug Larson Quotes
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
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I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
