Thomas Harris Quotes
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.
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Frankly, I don’t care what others say.
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I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.
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Obamacare, without a single Republican vote, cut $700 billion out of Medicare.
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I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.
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I'm kind of in a dark place. And I know some people are actually excited about that, because they think I'll write an album about being sad. But that's not what my music is about. There have been times when I've done that, but I'm not going to do it again.
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I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.
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I'm blessed. I'm blessed every day I wake up. So I just try to maximize every day to the fullest.
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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They could still be playing for all I know.
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Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.
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No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.
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We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.
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Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?
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Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.
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I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in hospital having tests done, but they couldn't find out what was wrong. They discovered that one of my kidneys wasn't working properly, and it had scarred. I had to have 32 injections in my arm in the morning and evening to try and make me better.
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It’s important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that’s all we have.
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I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.
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The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.
