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 don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • World
  • Best
  • Talent

• The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • End
  • Thing
  • Cause

• 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 mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Country
  • America
  • House

• 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

• Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • World

• It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• Writing-wise, I started when I was 17. Whatever was bothering me, I could just write about it in a song. I was in the west suburbs of Chicago, then I moved an hour south, and then I went to school up on the South Side - Saint Xavier, though I was at Purdue for a second before I dropped out.

  

  Kiara Saulters
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• Having a lot of time left as president is a good thing for him, because it gives him the opportunities and time to get out of some of these holes.

  

  Norman Ornstein
  • Time
  • President
  • Holes

• Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom he must be reunited if he is to rise above his fragmentary identity as a worldling and become whole, as he is (and always has been) in the mind of God.

  

  Charles le Gai Eaton
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Destiny

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

  

  Brian Houston
  • Destiny
  • ERA
  • Completion