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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Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
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At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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I like to work, and I worked for years as a camera person before I directed.
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If you want to go around saying that giving women the vote wrecked the country and still be taken seriously, it helps to be handing out $100 bills.
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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
