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!
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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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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies, They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock brothers Resting after their labors, Each in stall with his neighbors, But man with goad and whip, Breaks up their fellowship, Shouts in their silky ears Filling their soul with fears. When he has plowed the land, He says: "they understand." But the beasts in stall together, Freed from the yoke and tether, Say as the torn flank smoke: "Nay, 'twas the whip that spoke."
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The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.
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To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me.
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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!
