Phil Klay Quotes
There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.
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Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
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I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
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People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
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I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.
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It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
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I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.
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Rich people march on Washington every day.
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Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.
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We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.
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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
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Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.
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I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.
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He would not bring this case, at what is probably the end of his career, unless it was a case with great merit.
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There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.
