Jay Harrington Quotes
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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California has been very good to me in terms of the professional arena.
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I have had my share of choices and temptations, too; I would not lie about that. And I would also like to confess that had it not been for my mother, I would probably have never been able to make the right decisions during those formative years of my life.
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If the political will is there, we can solve anything.
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To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.
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I think you always want to have a project where it's not about you: where you're serving it. Where it has needs, and you're trying to meet those needs, so you're trying to lift it out of you and put it out there and then say to people, 'Hey, I think that's it; let's head that way.'
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My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
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I like to keep busy.
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I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.
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Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal.
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It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.
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I'm humbled by the honor that President Clinton has done me in nominatinq me as Attorney General of the United States, and I'm going to do my very best to deserve his confidence.
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
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It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.
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What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones
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Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire.
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No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
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Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
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(Highland) made the adjustment - they just didn't hit them.
