Douglas Horton Quotes

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Fear
  • Others
  • Greedy

• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Personal

• There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Service

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Loved
  • Bird
  • View

• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • War
  • Culture

• If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Me
  • Start

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Real
  • Ideas

• It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Work
  • Important
  • New

• Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Movies
  • Only
  • Ruin

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Hollywood
  • Pictures

• In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

  

  John E. Walker
  • College

• True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • True
  • Happy
  • Peace

• The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Man
  • Best

• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Enemy

• Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

  

  Douglas Horton
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad