Chris Harris, Jr. Quotes
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.
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I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
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I don't know how to play evil.
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Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
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All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.
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Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade have been exchanged. It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Africa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets.
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As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane, and the color bar of his tail is the color stripes of a plane's rudder.
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Risks are a measure of people. People who don't take them are trying to preserve what they have. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards, proving where you've been.
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I always soak in a bath with Epsom salts for a minimum of 20 minutes to absorb the magnesium once I get home.
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I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.
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The best corners can play everywhere.
