Thomas Harris Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
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Intercession is about putting ourselves in other’s shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball of wax. That's a really mixed bag of stuff. I look at so many people that I knew personally or didn't know personally but who have ended badly, have died young, have been destitute - there are a lot of bad child-actor-gone-wrong stories, a very high percentage, but I think the thing about it is that a lot of those are Hollywood stories, and you don't have that same kind of a thing in the theater.
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To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!
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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.
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Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
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Roads were made for journeys not destinations.
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God and all attributes of God are eternal.
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We can't change ourselves, it is Gods strength within us that makes the changes. We must do our part and God does His. What I tried to do myself is tiny compared to what God and I do together. He is the best partner I have ever had!
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If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.
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A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
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The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.
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He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.
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I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.
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I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
