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 love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.
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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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The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
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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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I won coach of the year at the ESPYs, but I didn't go to ESPYs. That's not me. I don't want the attention.
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I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.
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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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The best corners can play everywhere.
