Thomas Harris Quotes
Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.
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You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you're going to be miserable.
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I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.
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Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
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Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
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Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation.
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Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
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Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
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I don't really know that I really have an opinion that I think people need to hear.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
