Karsten Harries Quotes
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.
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I just want to have fun.
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
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I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.
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I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very similar; the profile would increase, and we might be in a better position as a sport.
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
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We say in popular speech that we come into this world, but we do nothing of the kind. We come out of it. In the same way as the fruit comes out of the tree, the egg from the chicken, and the baby from the womb, we are symptomatic of the universe. Just as in the retina there are myriads of little nerve endings, we are the nerve endings of the universe.
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And both were young, and one was beautiful.
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For the charities, their relationships with celebrity supporters should be as deep and purposeful as the ones they have with any of their supporters and volunteers, based on a genuine understanding of the issues they're tackling.
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I come from a musical kind of family.
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Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
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Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!
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No matter what stage of life you are graduating from or entering, learning how to build and state your case is something every person in the world should know how to do.
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Engvall: Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, 'Hey...' (pantomimes hitting his son) 'We don't hit'. He looked at me like, 'Here's your sign, Dad'.
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A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.
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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
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Never let anyone define who you are.
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Not all kitsch is sweet.
