Harold Russell Quotes
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
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All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
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The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.
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When I was one-and-twentyI heard him say again,'The heart out of the bosomWas never given in vain;'Tis paid with sighs a plentyAnd sold for endless rue.'And I am two-and-twentyAnd oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
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The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.
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When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.
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Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.
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Friends are thieves of time.
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In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'
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I never was a caterer, but I did deliver pizzas.
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It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people.
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You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.
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It is not what you have lost but what you have left that counts.
