Thomas Harris Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.
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My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.
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Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
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I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
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When I'm not longer rappin', I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
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Be true in your relationship with the Sovereign Creator, for He is the greatest one with whom you could relate in all your affairs and states.
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If your dream sounds like a real stretch and everyone around you is looking at you like you have completely lost it, it might just be exactly what you need.
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In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.
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Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.
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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
