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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.
MARY HARRIS JONES

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.
MARY HARRIS JONES

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. ...
MARY HARRIS JONES

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
MARY HARRIS JONES

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, ...
MARY HARRIS JONES

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
MARY HARRIS JONES

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
MARY HARRIS JONES

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
MARY HARRIS JONES

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
MARY HARRIS JONES

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the Ame...
MARY HARRIS JONES

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corpo...
MARY HARRIS JONES

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve,...
MARY HARRIS JONES

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to pro...
MARY HARRIS JONES

I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
MARY HARRIS JONES

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children,...
MARY HARRIS JONES

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to ...
MARY HARRIS JONES

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.
MARY HARRIS JONES

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching...
MARY HARRIS JONES

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
MARY HARRIS JONES

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man ...
MARY HARRIS JONES

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
MARY HARRIS JONES

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
MARY HARRIS JONES Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
MARY HARRIS "MOTHER" JONES I was upset. I didn't say anything but I really missed it.
MARY HARRIS The velvet tapestry of the night curved from horizon to horizon, flecked with thousands of tiny star...
MARY-JEAN HARRIS I knew your plan before you made it,” Eldora proclaimed, tossing her Wert from hand to hand… “...
MARY-JEAN HARRIS You seem to be in a state of such absolute contradiction that I would not be surprised if your face ...
MARY-JEAN HARRIS Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”
“Not...
MARY-JEAN HARRIS He slept still in the induced coma his doctors had kept him in since he arrived. She could see the b...
MARY BROCK JONES It was something Ferdo said. We may not have it all, you and I, but we have more than is granted mos...
MARY BROCK JONES

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
JOANNE HARRIS

The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of sci...
SAM HARRIS

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and...
SAM HARRIS

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and...
SAM HARRIS

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one...
SAM HARRIS

On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely o...
SAM HARRIS

The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential change...
SAM HARRIS

Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teacher...
SAM HARRIS

One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next ...
SAM HARRIS

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiot...
SAM HARRIS

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilit...
SAM HARRIS

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transce...
SAM HARRIS

While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all ...
SAM HARRIS

Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's point...
SAM HARRIS

I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessari...
SAM HARRIS

The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way i...
SAM HARRIS

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to coo...
KAMALA HARRIS

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do th...
KAMALA HARRIS

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
KAMALA HARRIS

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know ...
KAMALA HARRIS

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is ea...
KAMALA HARRIS

I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
KAMALA HARRIS

I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisio...
KAMALA HARRIS

So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
KAMALA HARRIS

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
KAMALA HARRIS

What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are...
KAMALA HARRIS

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline a...
KAMALA HARRIS

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of...
KAMALA HARRIS

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that pho...
KAMALA HARRIS

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
KAMALA HARRIS

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly de...
KAMALA HARRIS

We don't want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a persona...
KAMALA HARRIS

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstandin...
KAMALA HARRIS

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you'r...
KAMALA HARRIS

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it...
KAMALA HARRIS

The American dream belongs to all of us.
KAMALA HARRIS

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized n...
SAM HARRIS

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
THOMAS HARRIS I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they w...
NAOMIE HARRIS I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
NAOMIE HARRIS I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.
NAOMIE HARRIS I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
NAOMIE HARRIS At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it wa...
NAOMIE HARRIS I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have y...
NAOMIE HARRIS Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food d...
NAOMIE HARRIS As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
NAOMIE HARRIS Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. Y...
NAOMIE HARRIS Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates w...
NAOMIE HARRIS I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
NAOMIE HARRIS I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
NAOMIE HARRIS There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn u...
NAOMIE HARRIS Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
NAOMIE HARRIS I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're gratef...
NAOMIE HARRIS When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and a...
NAOMIE HARRIS I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
NAOMIE HARRIS I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
NAOMIE HARRIS I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow...
NAOMIE HARRIS I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for univers...
NAOMIE HARRIS Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th...
NAOMIE HARRIS My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
NAOMIE HARRIS Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
NAOMIE HARRIS Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
PAUL HARRIS

Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered ...
SAM HARRIS

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
CHARLAINE HARRIS I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. an...
CALVIN HARRIS Would've, could've, should've. The bottom line is we didn't do it.
AL HARRIS It wasn't him. It was us. We did it. We weren't afraid of Randy. We hurt our damn selves. On that se...
AL HARRIS I wish him the best of luck. Of course, I want to win the game.
AL HARRIS I don't think they were attacking me. I think they were going to their guy.
AL HARRIS They have some serious weapons. We're going to have our hands full on Sunday.
AL HARRIS He was with Detroit. I'm pretty sure we have some film on him. But it's no secret what they do.
AL HARRIS You've got to watch yourself.
AL HARRIS Bad! We needed it to pick ourselves back up.
AL HARRIS It's not going to get any easier for us. I mean, the schedule only gets tougher. We've got to find a...
AL HARRIS [In the end, not even the magic of No. 4, combined with the solid play of a young defense that seeme...
AL HARRIS I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrit...
ED HARRIS I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessar...
ED HARRIS I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
ED HARRIS I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time...
ED HARRIS I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around an...
ED HARRIS I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
ED HARRIS I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
ED HARRIS For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
ED HARRIS A lot of films come out before they're finished.
ED HARRIS If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn...
ED HARRIS I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff d...
ED HARRIS I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fasc...
ED HARRIS You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil...
ED HARRIS One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
ED HARRIS I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
ED HARRIS I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In ter...
ED HARRIS I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it...
ED HARRIS I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
ED HARRIS I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administratio...
ED HARRIS I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
ED HARRIS I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
ED HARRIS There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to g...
ED HARRIS You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was alm...
ED HARRIS Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much abou...
ED HARRIS You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
ED HARRIS It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was...
WOOD HARRIS We really would need a transponder to improve tracking enough to firmly establish that an impact wou...
ALAN HARRIS That is, we would still not know better than one-chance-in-five whether the impact would really occu...
ALAN HARRIS Whether you could see it from the center of London is another matter.
ALAN HARRIS However, to actually know what your seeing, a small telescope would be useful.
ALAN HARRIS Yesterday, we had a great rain storm for about 15 to 30 minutes, which helped matters a lot. However...
ALAN HARRIS I think my mom used to wonder, 'What are you saying when you're saying that?'
ALAN HARRIS create more difficulty than solving the problem.
ALAN HARRIS In a large telescope the motion would be perceptible against any stars in the field more or less in ...
ALAN HARRIS Because of the nature of the orbit, we cannot predict thousands of years into the future for this ob...
ALAN HARRIS If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!
EMMYLOU HARRIS Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
EMMYLOU HARRIS From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate ...
CALVIN HARRIS While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England ...
PAUL HARRIS The real vibe with us, like everybody's saying, is that this is best team that has ever played footb...
AARON HARRIS We can't play them any time soon anyway. I know we're not playing them next week.
AARON HARRIS I could care less. Oklahoma wouldn't care.
AARON HARRIS Our plan was to get him in situations where he's not comfortable. We just wanted to get to him and f...
AARON HARRIS I signed up for it. It's going to be fun.
AARON HARRIS I guess we'd feel like Auburn did last year. I guess I'd call them and ask them how they felt.
AARON HARRIS We definitely see Tech on the same level with Oklahoma and Texas A&M.
AARON HARRIS I'm tired of having to go home and hear about losing to them. You never want to lose to any team mor...
AARON HARRIS He's like a disease. He's like an infection. He just spreads.
AARON HARRIS I hated to see that because it wasn't us beating them. But you really don't want to put too much emp...
AARON HARRIS

The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly ...
ALYSIA HARRIS

A Woman's Question

Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by t...
JOSHUA HARRIS

It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolut...
CHARLAINE HARRIS

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
THOMAS HARRIS

The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as...
JOSHUA HARRIS

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
CHARLAINE HARRIS

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
CHARLAINE HARRIS

This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to whi...
ROBERT HARRIS

The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
JAMES HARRIS

Pull out a Monte Cristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns into the nicotine fascist.
MARTYN HARRIS

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
DAVID HARRIS Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled ...
SYDNEY HARRIS Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to th...
JOANNE HARRIS

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstab...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or yo...
JEAN HARRIS The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
CORRA HARRIS It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rathe...
PAUL HARRIS In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
PAUL HARRIS I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one...
STEFON HARRIS It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British...
PAUL HARRIS

It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of ...
SAM HARRIS Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world re...
MARVIN HARRIS

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
KAMALA HARRIS

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

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