Douglas Horton Quotes
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?
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I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.
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If all the media are singing one song, it gets dangerous; it really does.
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The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
