Harold Russell Quotes
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
