Harry Browne Quotes
It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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When you have people catering to you non-stop, you lose it. You need someone to kick you in the butt every now and then!
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In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.
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We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.
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“The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.
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I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
