Thomas Harris Quotes
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
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Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
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Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.
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We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.
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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing which shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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Nothing less will content me, than whole America.
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By and by an obscure individual, a young man, rose up, and, in the midst of all Christendom, proclaimed the startling news that God had sent an angel to him;... This young man, some four years afterwards, was visited again by a holy angel.
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…for thy huggest thy bolster, which men call a Dutch wife in some parts.
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Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
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People are very appreciative, and I'm always thrilled at how long the 'Morse' films have lasted. They seem to have an afterlife that goes on and on for decades, which is touching.
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I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a "rational" understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, "irrational" yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Police and prosecutors and the courts have got to talk together.
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Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
