Chris Harris, Jr. Quotes
I'm undrafted. It's always going to be like that. I have to go above and beyond on everything that I do, even though I have the stats.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.
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Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
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In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
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People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
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The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
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A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.
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There is no such thing as a Republican position on Zika or Democrat position on Zika because these mosquitoes bite everyone, and they're not going to ask you what your party registration is or who you plan to vote for in November.
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No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.
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'Interview with a Vampire' is my all-time favorite. I also loved 'An American Werewolf in London.'
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When I get bored, I get into trouble.
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Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.
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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
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Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.
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And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
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There was no such thing as a solo career in East Germany. You had to get the best orchestra job that you could.
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Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
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I'm undrafted. It's always going to be like that. I have to go above and beyond on everything that I do, even though I have the stats.
