Stefon Harris Quotes
It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
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From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.
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We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan and it could be done. We think Dodd-Frank, which we supported parts of, gave the FDIC the authority to take down a big bank.
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Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies but cultivates more violence.
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Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
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Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.
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When we talk about kids earning commission for chores, we always have at least one parent who argues that children should do chores because they are part of the family. I agree, but if you don't involve money in a few chores, you lose the teachable moments in the work, spend, save, and give principles.
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Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.
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To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.
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It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow.
