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John Harrison Quotes

We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: inventor
Nationality: english
Birth: March 24, 1693 - March 24, 1776

Topics

Door Fly Back Open Here Stuff

I used to say that 'happy' was like 'lucky,' kind of imaginary. But now that I'm married and have children, I find that happiness is a real space.

Happiness Children Space Happy Find

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

Andrei Platonov

Woman Man War Never Birth Head

Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Government Caring Lead By Example

But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.

People Influence Now Committee Here

Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.

Life People Survive Result Way Ruin

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Character Memories Writing Start You

Conservatives sometimes catch a tremendous about of flak from inside the Beltway - and those groups can exert extreme pressure on those conservative members to try to get them to vote in ways that are opposite of their core fundamental beliefs and the promises that they made to their constituents back in their districts.

Promises Pressure Back Sometimes Try

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Stephen Gardiner

Good Architecture People Problems

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

People Road Down Play Newspaper Big

One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same language. So native New Yorkers can move to San Francisco, Houston, or Milwaukee and still understand and be understood by everyone they meet. Right? Well, not exactly. Or, as a native New Yorker might put it, 'Wrong!'

People Speak Language You Nice Meet

I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.

Christopher Nolan

Me Alien Kid Always Extraordinary

I don't give a damn about the money. I earn my living well enough.

Money Enough Living Damn Earn Well

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