Brian Houston Quotes
Anxiety and worry work in opposition to inner peace. When you are worried or anxious about something, even something that must be faced and embraced as a process, you leave little room for God’s peace.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.
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As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.
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I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.
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I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
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They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.
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In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.
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My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.
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I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
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Anxiety and worry work in opposition to inner peace. When you are worried or anxious about something, even something that must be faced and embraced as a process, you leave little room for God’s peace.
