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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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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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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We often discussed his notions on objective reality. I recall that during one walk Einstein suddenly stopped, turned to me and asked whether I really believed that the moon exists only when I look at it.
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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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The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!
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The real power of this book comes from its documentation from major sources. In fact, you will quickly discover that most of my documents about Jewish Supremacism are from Jewish sources. They argue more convincingly for my point of view than anything I could write. I encourage you to go to the sources that I quote and check them out for yourself. In this book I take you along with me on a fascinating journey of discovery in a forbidden subject. I urge you to courageously keep an open mind while you explore the topics ahead, for that is the only way any of us can find the truth.
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I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.
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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
