Thomas Harris Quotes
… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.
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Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
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As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.
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... I plan to travel to Mars and make it my home.
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I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.
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So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.
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… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.
