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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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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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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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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Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage - whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state's or the society's.
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I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
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I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
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Age is how we determine how valuable you are.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.
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Donald Trump recognizes that a good leader is going to protect America's interests by making sure that we have a relationship with Russia: that our interests are protected, not theirs.
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A good leader makes a good follower.
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Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
