Brian Houston Quotes

When something is over, don't stop. The end of an era is not the completion of a destiny.

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• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • You
  • Value
  • Painting

• I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Live
  • Want
  • New York

• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Movie
  • Stupid

• When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Want
  • Race
  • Pool

• In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • Great
  • America

• In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Ideas
  • End
  • Wealth

• I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • High
  • Habit

• Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40¢.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • American

• I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

  

  Kathryn Joosten
  • Cancer
  • Celebrity

• For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Interesting
  • Personality

• I don't have a religion, but I respect them.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Respect

• My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Freedom

• I'm honored that people would think of me for any big role that is talked about a lot.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • People

• As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Believe
  • Health
  • Single

• I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Together

• Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

  

  Jan Hus
  • Church

• It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Life
  • God
  • Card

• Our problem was an embarrassment of riches. In many cases, we found three or four people qualified to play the role of chairman.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Role
  • Embarrassment

• I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Nice

• Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Level

• I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story yet in fact are nothing, nothing of mine, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion, only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even she who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Suffering
  • Story
  • Confusion

• When something is over, don't stop. The end of an era is not the completion of a destiny.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Destiny
  • ERA
  • Completion