William Torrey Harris Quotes
The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places. It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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I don't have goals in life.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
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One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
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It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
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I am a person who does not subscribe to the hero-CEO school of thought.
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You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
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Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.
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The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places. It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.
