Thomas Harris Quotes
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
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The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
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Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
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The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
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There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.
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As a female athlete, I think it's really important to stand up on a podium and represent females and what we're capable of, and I always try to make political statements with what I do rather than with headlines.
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Now, we can live in this little, liberal bubble bath where everybody's supposed to like everybody and do all this stuff and understand our pain and know our history. But that, maybe, works in your dorm, that doesn't work in the real world, and people need to get out of all that.
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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
