Michael Horton Quotes
Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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I felt myself no longer a husk but a body with some of the body's sweet juices stirring again. I had my first dream in many months, confused but to this day imperishable, with a flute in it somewhere, and a wild goose, and a dancing girl.
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I'm an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.
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I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.
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Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.
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The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
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Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
