Brian Houston Quotes
The spirit of those around you will stick to you like glue. Be careful of wrong associations and what you allow to cling to you. Not everyone who appears friendly is a friend.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.
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I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach. I'm always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that's something I can always go back to and enjoy doing.
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A people must have dignity and identity.
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There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed.
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I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.
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The deconstructed, postmodern pizza has been with us for ages, and the fact is that pretty much every ingredient in the world has been used as a pizza topping and liked by somebody, somewhere.
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When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.
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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
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Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.
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I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.
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My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.
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Hello, my sister, Libby, also your daughter, is snogging a potato in my bed. What are you going to do about it?' Dad started yelling uncontrollably. I wonder if he is having the male menopause? If he starts growing breasts, I will definitely be running away with the Circus.
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Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things.
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Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.
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There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally.
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Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark.
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One of things I write about a lot is the role of women. An older friend of mine said that she feels like there's always a tension between wanting to be free and wanting to be cherished. I think that's one of the things that my whole book speaks to, wanting to break out of the confines of the roles that are prescribed for women and yet at the same time, not wanting to be totally free. You want to have intimate relationships. It's that bursting out of confinement.
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I have a friend who loves housework. Honest, she loves all housework. All day long she moves from one chore to the next, smiling the whole time. I went over there one day and begged her to tell me her secret. It's simple, she said, right after breakfast you light up a joint.
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The spirit of those around you will stick to you like glue. Be careful of wrong associations and what you allow to cling to you. Not everyone who appears friendly is a friend.
