Allan Houston Quotes
There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.
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We shred every day.
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I've never been a partier.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
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It's not easy for a film to tell a story of the experiences of an entire society. However, from an individual's perspective, it is possible to tell one aspect of an entire society's story.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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The more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.
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There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.
