Thomas Harris Quotes
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.
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Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.
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My kids are from different countries, but there's an understanding, you don't have to like a country just because you were born in it. You need to respect all countries. And be very open to each other's, of course.
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I'll decide to do a movie and then go oh, like "Twilight" fans are probably going to react to this or whatever. But that's always an afterthought. Like I don't plan things out based on other people's opinions of how like I think they're going to receive them. I do it like for the experience.
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Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar
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The important thing is not the spokesman, but what the spokesman says, and what the countries will say.
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
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Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street
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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
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That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.
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God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.
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Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
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I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.
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Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.
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A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
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The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
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When you're 25, you can eat hamburgers and pizza and drink beer and stay out all night and come out the next day and drink a couple cups of coffee and just play. If I did that today, my heart would stop and I'd need a stretcher and an IV.
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Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.
