Douglas Horton Quotes
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
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In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
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I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.
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My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.
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It's not beyond the possibility that there still could be a YES in 200 years' time... of course with different members, unless the medical profession comes up with something extraordinary.
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First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
