Thomas Harris Quotes
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.
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When you want the belt, you have to work for it.
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I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
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Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.
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The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.
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Everything is being televised so you won't be able to tell where the Revolution is. 'Who's revolting? Well, I don't know, what's on the other channel?'
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Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.
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Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.
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I think it's hard for people to suspend the era they live in and understand the decisions that had to be made often during the western frontier era were life and death. You had to be resourceful and on your feet to try to figure out somebody. You didn't have the benefit of knowing who somebody was.
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I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.
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We need new partnerships for peace and security.
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Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
