Phil Klay Quotes
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I always played to win.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.
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The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.
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When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.
