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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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 spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
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Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand.
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I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'
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Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.
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I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
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The best corners can play everywhere.
