Brian Houston Quotes
What frames the tone of your life? How often do you stretch beyond your comfort zone to reach out to people whom you are in disagreement with? The ability to enjoy a bug, spacious, openhearted life is directly proportional to your ability to love everyone, especially those who are different from you.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
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I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.
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Inspector Rebus is a great character, so when the opportunity came up to revive the role for 'BBC Children in Need,' and really have a bit of fun with it, I was happy to take part.
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Some actors have an affinity for dance, and they should explore it, train in it, and get good.
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I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.
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I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.
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Every fight has been hard. Every world title I've won has been hard fought, and every European title I've won has been hard fought as well.
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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.
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Bobsled is the first time I decided, win, lose, or draw, I was all-in for all four years. I figured if I was going to step away from a very lucrative career, I owed it to myself and my family to see this through to the very end.
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
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What frames the tone of your life? How often do you stretch beyond your comfort zone to reach out to people whom you are in disagreement with? The ability to enjoy a bug, spacious, openhearted life is directly proportional to your ability to love everyone, especially those who are different from you.
