Douglas Horton Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
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If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
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I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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Harry Potter is awesome.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
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It works on improving your neuromuscular system, ... You'll see results faster and you'll also get stronger in the process.
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When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.
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Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
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It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.
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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
