Douglas Hurd Quotes
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
Quotes to Explore
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
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What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.
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I wake up a little before six, and I go right to my study. That's where I do my daily reading of the Oswald Chambers book, 'My Utmost for His Highest.'
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Producing clean energy from non-recyclable waste is an important part of my future vision for family company Visy Australia.
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Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
