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.
Patrick Warburton
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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.
Warren Spector
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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.
Barbara Walters
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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.
Barbara Boxer
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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.
Sam Kean
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
Nancy Pelosi
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
Dane Cook
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
Damien Hirst
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
Walter Dean Myers
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
Kate Beckinsale
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
Yitzhak Rabin
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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.
Orhan Pamuk
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintilian
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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.
Maimonides
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
E. W. Howe
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Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.
Weili Dai
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
Rabih Alameddine
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I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.
Facundo Pieres
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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
Norton Juster
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While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably … We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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The appeal to heaven breaks off.The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness.It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.
Galway Kinnell
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So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
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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.
Sydney J. Harris