John Harrison Quotes
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
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It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
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I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
At least I had that, one guy understood me.
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'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'
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What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.
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I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.
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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
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I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.
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That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.
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It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.
