Chris Harris, Jr. Quotes
It's tough when you get beat. You have to be able to come back mentally. Sometimes the offense is going to win, but you have to be able to be level-headed and not get too upset when they do catch the ball.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
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The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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I live every day, day to day. I will go wherever life takes me. I'm not questioning it.
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I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.
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I love to show off my ability in a nice way.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.
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Negative politics have always been around.
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As more and more money is coming into the formal economy, one can look at more attractive tax rates and lower tax slabs. Even if half the people who were in the informal sector move in to the formal economy and more taxes get collected, more money can be spent on the welfare.
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Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.
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Writing is more important than being a writer.
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The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.
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What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.
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It's tough when you get beat. You have to be able to come back mentally. Sometimes the offense is going to win, but you have to be able to be level-headed and not get too upset when they do catch the ball.
