David Harsanyi Quotes
A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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In a political situation where tyranny reigns and rebellion is not tolerated, few men and women will have the luxury of going beyond the stance of the rebel.
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Harper wants to mend fences with Bush. I think it's a mistake for the country, and I regret that it's happening after so much work has been done.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.
