Phil Hartman Quotes
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
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I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.
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I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
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Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.
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My adversaries crumble when we rumble; it's a catastrophe.
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If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?
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But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.
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I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
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I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to New York or Paris. But after that intense summer, I never thought that I wanted to live any place but Chicago. It also made me see what the stakes were in the civil rights movement. And it made me see what real hatred was like and the forms that it took. But it also made me understand how powerless ordinary people feel in their lives.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.
