Harold Russell Quotes
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.
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There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
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The bottom line is if the president [Barack Obama] really wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, maybe his Justice Department should stop releasing felons, many of which are illegal immigrants, only to the streets of America.
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
