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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Can heav'nly minds such high resentment show,Or exercise their spite in human woe?
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.
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The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.
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I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
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When you are out of your comfort zone God can do what only He can do.
