James Houston Quotes
It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.
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Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.
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We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
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I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.
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It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.
