Thomas Harris Quotes

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

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• I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

  

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• Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.

  

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• I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

  

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• Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

  

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• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  

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• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

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• The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

  

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• 25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!

  

  Daniel Boulud
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• It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

  

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• I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.

  

  M. K. Hobson
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• Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.

  

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• When you are in an unpleasant environment that makes you feel uncomfortable, one of the key ways to improve that situation is through design. That's why I think it is so important to help develop and showcase young designers, as they are our future.

  

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• Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

  

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• It's not personal, it's strictly business.

  

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• You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

  

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• All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

  

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• Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

  

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• What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

  

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• In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'

  

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• You know it's not "you have to see it to believe it" - sometimes you have to believe it to see it. You have to know what you're looking for when you're seeing signs of an authoritarian takeover of your country.

  

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• You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Intellectual
  • Vanity
  • Appeals