Vernon Howard Quotes
The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
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When any character gets killed, there's always a sadness about that, because they're part of the family in a way.
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I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture.
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Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?
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History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.
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The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.
