Donald Heiney (MacDonald Harris) Quotes
Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.
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I have to be extra careful, but I'm never going to change the way I play.
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I started to have almost a realization that a lot of the evangelical leaders I looked up to and found hope in - I started realizing a lot of them just weren't the people I thought they were.
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A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.
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Cycling's primarily a pushing motion, and skiing is more pulling, so it kind of balances out the body.
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Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.
