Doug Larson Quotes
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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There is a daily discussion with our servants about the price of food and the number of loaves: a conference with our presbyters to consider the sins of our people is a very rare occurrence.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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I know what poverty is.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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You have to win something for people to think about you.
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I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.
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From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
