John Harrison Quotes
We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.
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When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a giant Samsung logo. I see a giant Microsoft Windows logo. And those are stores within a store.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.
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Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
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If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.
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Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.
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I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.
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I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
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Since every school in India teaches English, why can't it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communications within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!
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O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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I want to know why the government of this country can't take care of the people who are keeping us safe?
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We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.
