Phil Klay Quotes
Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.
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My favorite Elvis era has always been his early Sun Records stuff. It was raw, just Elvis singing what he felt. It had all the influences of black blues that came out of Memphis and these gospel quartets that he loved. You can really hear that in his music from Sun.
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I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.
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Golf during the day, music during the night - it don't get much better.
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Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.
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Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
