Stefon Harris Quotes
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
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The public has an unusual relationship to the poet: It doesn't even know that he is there.
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I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
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I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.
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I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
