Phil Klay Quotes
A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski -
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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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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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.
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Confidence is the key to virtually everything. It's just deciding that you're qualified because once you decide you're qualified, everything else becomes very easy.
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I had a great relationship with Coach Nee. I liked Doc Sadler a lot.
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.
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Everybody's got somewhere they call home.
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A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
