Barry Harris Quotes
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The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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I pack on mass quickly when I lift.
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But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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I am not a fan of westerns particularly.
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The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
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I play what the punters want to hear - I’m not Sting! People want to hear the Love/Hate material sung by the guy who can still hit the notes, and I am obliged to give the people what they want. It’s a goddamn privilege and a blessing.
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I had four sandwiches when I left New York. I only ate one and a half during the whole trip and drank a little water. I don't suppose I had time to eat any more because, you know, it surprised me how short a distance it is to Europe.
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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
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It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?
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I've run businesses with thousands of people. I've run businesses with 10 people.
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There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.
