Brian Houston Quotes
The moment we think we can is when we take our eyes off Jesus—and that’s when we begin to sink!
Quotes to Explore
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.
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You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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I am not gay. I never have been gay.
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An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.
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Every human being experiences risks; some of the risks are common to all humans, and some are unique to the life each of us has been given to live. But I know for certain that risk – both it's shadow and its reality – has shaped my life inside and out.
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...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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'The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.'
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I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.
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The moment we think we can is when we take our eyes off Jesus—and that’s when we begin to sink!
