Laurence Housman Quotes
I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
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I do want to get married again, and I want to have kids. And this time, I really want to do it right.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.
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I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.
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I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
