Doug Larson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
-
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
-
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
-
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
-
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
-
And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
-
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
-
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
-
I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
-
The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
-
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
-
I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
-
My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
-
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
-
I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
-
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
-
I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
-
I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
-
Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.
-
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
-
How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.
-
With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center.
-
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
