Douglas Horton Quotes

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Time
  • Know
  • New

• The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Up
  • You
  • Tough

• I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Father

• Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

  

  Karl Rove
  • House
  • Winning
  • Stupid

• We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • World
  • War
  • History

• I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Age
  • Old Age

• I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it's for a title or for a small show. The only thing for me is winning my fights and being the best athlete I can be.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Small
  • Me
  • Best

• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Diversity
  • Loss
  • Forgive

• I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

  

  Larry David
  • World
  • Running
  • Challenges

• For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Military
  • Gay

• There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Good
  • English
  • Boy

• Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken

• What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • People
  • Country

• Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

  

  Eric Liu
  • Great
  • Family
  • Model

• I've talked about that with friends, about what genre makes sense to choose for each record and the strategy around that... Sometimes it's more about the moment of time, and other times it's more about the sound of the song. Sometimes it's about what's going on in larger life, in politics.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

  

  Douglas Horton
  • Friends
  • Abuse