Phil Klay Quotes
It's a professional military. You sign up and agree to allow your countrymen to use your life as they see fit for the next four years. And I think we all should have a greater role in ensuring that we use those lives wisely.
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I've never been a partier.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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I'm telling you right now, we're going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class!
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.
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It's a professional military. You sign up and agree to allow your countrymen to use your life as they see fit for the next four years. And I think we all should have a greater role in ensuring that we use those lives wisely.
