Jay Harrington Quotes
The way this tournament is run, this is the last true tournament in America. You can't go anywhere in the country and find the way that people treat you here. ... We've been treated like kings, and we appreciate it.
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I write in a small office at home.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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The way something is presented will define the way you react to it.
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
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If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
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The way this tournament is run, this is the last true tournament in America. You can't go anywhere in the country and find the way that people treat you here. ... We've been treated like kings, and we appreciate it.
