T.I. Harris Quotes

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

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

Every team I'm on, I expect to win. I expect to push my teammates as much as I can, and I expect them to do the same with me.

...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in 1942 and onwards.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

We can only learn so much and live.

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.

Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

"I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you." "Like a fungus?

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.

I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.