Sam Houston Quotes
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
