Thomas Harris Quotes
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.
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Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.
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I don’t know what a star is. I never think about these things, because the more you think about them, the more your ears get used to them.
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."
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Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.
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Keep going and the Lord will help you.
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Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
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All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
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It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.
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The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.
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I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time.
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
