Thomas Harris Quotes
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.
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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.
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I'll spend time playing 'Call of Duty' and 'Medal of Honor.'
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It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
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I have never cheated anybody out of a victory, I have worked hard for every single race that I have won.
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That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
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Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
