Sam Houston Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die
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We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.
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We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.
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There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don't know how to get through it, and maybe you do, and if you have some sort of knowledge or power, share with the world.
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
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Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
