William Henry Houghton Quotes
Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
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I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
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There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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When a woman appears to express fear, we cannot assure her without at least releasing her from responsibility; when we interpret the same emotion in a man as anger, we want to blame him and be certain he acknowledges responsibility. We want to find her guiltless; we want to find him guilty.
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Give your best. Settle for nothing less than doing your best for yourself and for others.
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I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.
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Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.
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Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all.
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We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
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I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.
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Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life.
