Thomas Harris Quotes
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
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I have yet to meet members of a leadership team who I thought lacked the intelligence or the domain expertise required to be successful. I've met many, however, who failed to foster organizational health. Their companies were riddled with politics, various forms of dysfunction, and general confusion about their direction and mission.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.
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According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.
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Spot the falsehood of history and find out the truth.
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Si pudiera dejar todo como está, sin mover ni una estrella, ni una nube. ¡Ah, si pudiera!
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We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.
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When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.
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It's tough to be a mother. At any age. It's tough. It's a lot of work.
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I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.
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The passions are the voice of the body.
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Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.
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Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.
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Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
