Eddie Harris Quotes
No one remembers you for standing in the crowd . But they do remember you for standing out of it.
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.
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When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.
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The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
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There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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I think it had to do with the people because some of our guys aren't used to this. It had to do with the crowd. When we got in a huddle, we had to settle down and realize it was just us and them.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
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History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.
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It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.
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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
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Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
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Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.
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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand why he must do this. For if his frustration and despair are allowed to continue piling up, millions of Negroes will seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies. And this, inevitably, would lead to a frightening racial nightmare.
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In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.
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Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.
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Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
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No one remembers you for standing in the crowd . But they do remember you for standing out of it.
