Parker Harris Quotes
I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.'
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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What Philips has to offer to India is to further enhance the state of healthcare for the over billion people in this country.
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The wonderful thing about delivering sports commentary on NPR was that because it has such a broad audience, I was able to reach people who otherwise had little or no interest in sport - especially as an important part of our human culture.
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After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.
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I guess there can be a lesson. We should have just kept doing what we were doing in the first half. We should have just run the offense.
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I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.'
