Doug Larson Quotes
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
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Robert Englund's done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that's a fan of 'Nightmare' loves Robert and you know so that's a challenge when you've got to step in a big man's shoes like that, so it's scary but it's also exciting.
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I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.
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Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By “they” I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something actual is to place it on the market. The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness.
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I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the late pope's followers believe he is already there.
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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
