Emo Philips Quotes
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it's because we love them so much.
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Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed.
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I was a mailman walking in the snow six days a week, 12-hour days. Every two weeks, I'd get a check for $228.
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I like walking in the park... plucking out nose hairs. Those sleeping winos hate that.
