Douglas Horton Quotes
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
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The Sun Dancers also put rabbit skins on their arms and legs, for the rabbit represents humility, because he is quiet and soft and not self-asserting - a quality which we must all possess when we go to the center of the world.
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If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
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When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
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There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.
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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
