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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It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.
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Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
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Fate laughs at probabilities.
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Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.
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Postwar America would bear no more similarity to prewar America than the Restoration Monarchy bore to Revolutionary France; what would emerge would be a vast, impersonal juggernaut of industrial cartels, a mountainous administrative bureaucracy and a prestigious military junta—and beneath these, far beneath, an emotional and highly subservient citizenry whose attitudes and actions would be created, aroused, manipulated, subverted by the roar of the mass media … it was so clear! Why couldn’t the dunderheads see it? Whoever could see it—whoever rode this wave deftly, keeping just ahead of its boiling crest—would hold the future securely in his fine right hand
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It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.
