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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Oddly, I believe that emotional proximity we feel to close loved ones makes it hard to be honest with them about feelings of depression.
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If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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That's the spirit in which I went to New York to be with my husband, and when I knocked on the hotel door, she opened the door as Caitlyn as we now know her - full makeup and fully dressed as a woman. So it was devastating to me to see because I had envisioned Bruce opening the door, but it was helpful in my process.
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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.
