Joel Houston Quotes
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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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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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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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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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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The quicker you get acclimated to getting hit and being on the ground, it's better for you when the games start.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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When I was on the U.S. men's indoor team, I was on the road 200 days of the year and sometimes in the worst conditions. We didn't have the food or luxuries we wanted. We didn't have a laundry service. So every night after the match, I soaped up my uniform in the shower. I learned to rely on outside things as little as possible, whether it was music or massage. I just got out of the habit of relying on outside things.
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While Airbnb cannot singlehandedly level the playing field for women, I believe we can play a role in enabling women around the world to follow their passions and design the lives they want.
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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
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When you are out of your comfort zone God can do what only He can do.
