Douglas Horton Quotes
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.
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Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
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I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
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I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and 'wisdom' and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.
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Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
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I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
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Tell me not here, it needs not saying,What tune the enchantress playsIn aftermaths of soft SeptemberOr under blanching mays,For she and I were long acquaintedAnd I knew all her ways.
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Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.
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Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
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What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
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It's so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.
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There was no actually stock footage in Medium Cool. I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park during the demonstrations. But nowhere was it like we had stock footage and then later, in editing, integrated it into the film. It was all done at the time.
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THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.
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I sort of see cannabis as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.
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The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.
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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
