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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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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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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I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.
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There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the Arab Spring was merely the prelude to a deeper and much farther-reaching upheaval in the region that has greater impact on countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
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If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.
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The best corners can play everywhere.
