Michael Horton Quotes
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I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
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A theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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What I may attempt is to dispel the feeling that in using the eye of the body or the eye of the soul, and incorporating what is thereby revealed in our conception of reality, we are doing something irrational and disobeying the leading of truth which as scientists we are pledged to serve.
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I'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.
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I'm sort of a straight shooter.
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Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.
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I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.
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I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
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As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.
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Hâtons-nous aujourd'hui de jouir de la vie. Qui sait si nous serons demain?
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There has been a meeting and discussions are still in progress. The talks have been taking place between the two sides here and in the United States.
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I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
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Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.
