Doug Larson Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.