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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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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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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What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.
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Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services and all those things that will help lower the cost and increase the ease of doing business across the region.
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The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
