M. John Harrison Quotes
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
Quotes to Explore
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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Be good at something. It makes you valuable.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.
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The things in our lives that die and can't be laid to rest hurt the most.
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Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
