Douglas Horton Quotes
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
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After graduating, the jobs that I got were TV, so you sort of move to where the jobs are. But I would absolutely go back to theater if the role was right.
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There has been evolution in many different areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology... I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.
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Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
