Sydney J. Harris Quotes

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

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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I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.

Jim Lovell

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That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting.

John Baldessari

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At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

Joely Fisher

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Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

John Fletcher

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You want to go to work with people you like and where everyone is having fun.

Megan Fox

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Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

Robert Kiyosaki

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When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.

Romola Garai

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What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

Mary Douglas

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'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.

Josh Gondelman

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'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.

Dexter Fletcher

SunshineI AmMeBeyondMy OwnSee

But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.

Bode Miller

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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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