Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
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We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
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At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of the morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.
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The son-of-a-bitch would shoot me just to make book on which way I'd fall!
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.
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I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
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The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.
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Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
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I think the world is run by 'C' students.
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I hesitate to talk about Czech food. ... The people are very sweet, wonderfully cultured, very friendly, but my God how they eat that food I do not know. It is surely the most disgusting cuisine in the world.
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True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
