Thomas Harris Quotes
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
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Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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80: Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
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When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.
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I started realizing how the condition of our hearts affects the way we see. If your heart is full of bitterness, anger, and resentment, you're going to look at this world as a very evil place.
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Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.
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The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.
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When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.
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Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
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I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.
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You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.
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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
