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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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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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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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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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 don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.
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If they could put us all in a tournament, that'd be the best way, but they're not going to do that here at the UFC.
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We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.
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Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.
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Saw your face, My hand you took Just like in a story book, And you got me Yeah, you‘ve got me
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I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.
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If you feel good about what you put on your face - or body - that's really putting your best foot forward.
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The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
