W. Averell Harriman Quotes
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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You don't get old being stupid.
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Between the desireAnd the spasmBetween the potencyAnd the existenceBetween the essenceAnd the descentFalls the Shadow .
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Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
