Sydney J. Harris Quotes

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Sydney J. Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 14, 1917 - December 8, 1986

Topics

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The fact is that 'free' in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it's stunting the growth of paid streaming.

Jimmy Iovine

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There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

Jock Sturges

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If I had a modelling job and then it became a poster, it meant that my kids and I could have turkey for Christmas dinner. Otherwise, we had chicken.

Maye Musk

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For myself, I warmly thank the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Chemistry for this mark of their approbation and for an award which confers the highest distinction that a scientist can achieve. I am greatly beholden also to my sponsors and supporters.

Robert Robinson

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This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

Robert Jarvik

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

John Ruskin

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Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until 2016, an open media was seen as a resilient democratic pillar that supported the others.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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I'm a pretty successful songwriter and known in some circles, but I didn't think the story of my career was of any real entertainment value.

Rodney Crowell

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People sorta know my face, but I can still go out to the supermarket, and nobody pays much attention.

Miguel Ferrer

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My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.

Monte Irvin

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Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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I consume a lot of television and a lot of movies, and I love watching other actors work and am just very inspired by it.

Jordan Gavaris

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