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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We need some rules changes. This is an outrage that this, the oldest democracy has now, you know, ranked - when I say ranked 59th, it means that in the percentage of women, in our national parliament, our National Congress, is now ranks 59th from the top. That means 58 countries have more women than we do in percentage wise.
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I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
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Optimism is true moral courage.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Everything's always got to be character-based. We know we can't, if we're sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more than 20 seconds without a character having a point of view or moving the action forward; my brain just shuts down, or I start thinking about my laundry.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
