Douglas Horton Quotes
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
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For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.
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I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
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When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
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People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.
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As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
