Darrell Huff Quotes
It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!
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Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
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We live in diverse communities with all sorts of people from all sorts of different backgrounds. The more our entertainment can be a reflection of the world we live in, the better it is for all of us.
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We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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I'd like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do.
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There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
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I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.
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We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
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My day, normally speaking, is: I go the gym in the morning, I go and work for 10 or 12 hours, I have dinner, I go to sleep.
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Be a witness, as I excersize my exorcism.
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It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.
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I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.
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A certain emotional frostiness is the heritage of a culture that puts great stock in WASP values: One does not talk about money sex, religion, and above all, one does not expose one's feelings. If a case can be made for the cultural contouring of personality, the Puritan ethic is the culprit in such rubrics as 'Children should be seen and not heard' and 'Never complain, never explain.
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It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.
