Sydney J. Harris Quotes
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I've found people from all walks of life who love metal.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.
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I'm a strong advocate of new missions to Venus.
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My older sisters were in acting, and of course, I wanted to be just like them!
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If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
