Allan Houston Quotes
You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
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Being evil is easy.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.
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I want to see America set the example to the world both in our domestic and foreign relations of magnanimity.
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Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.
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I met the CEO of Twitter.
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If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time.
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You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.
