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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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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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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Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
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Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?
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You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.
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In comparison to the eight years I spent on Klonopin, the cocaine and brandy wins hands down. If you are ever in a drugstore and they put you on Klonopin, run out of there screaming.
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Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
