Sydney J. Harris Quotes
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
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The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
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The fun of sitting around Pangong Lake with 40 guys around a fireplace, having a glass of wine... staying in one camp together... that's an experience. Waking up at 5 in the morning, watching the sun come up. You don't do these things in Bombay.
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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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I like action-adventure movies.
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If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.
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If you torture words enough, they'll confess to anything.
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Fibers made on Earth, and thus made in the presence of gravity, have impurities and defects in the glass that adversely affect transmission speed and quality.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.
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The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.
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It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.
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I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine - a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn't practice.
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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
