Douglas Horton Quotes
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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I'm a dork!
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.
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I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.
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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
