Chris Harris, Jr. Quotes
When you're not good, and you are losing, and a team puts 50 on you, you gotta figure something out.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.
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Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
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Search is now more than a web destination and a few words plugged into a box. Search is a mode, a method of interaction with the physical and virtual worlds. What is Siri but search? What are apps like Yelp or Foursquare, but structured search machines? Search has become embedded into everything and has reached well beyond its web-based roots.
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When you're not good, and you are losing, and a team puts 50 on you, you gotta figure something out.
