Phil Klay Quotes

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

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• I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Lost

• Revenge doesn't stop.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Stop
  • Revenge

• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • People
  • Simple
  • Language

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn

• I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Support

• We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Understand
  • Just
  • Privilege

• I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Think
  • Child

• If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Day
  • Year
  • Shaving

• While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Country
  • Day
  • Veterans

• Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Care
  • Poverty

• Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Man
  • Cancer
  • Nothing

• Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Great
  • Pride

• I'm a real romantic.

  

  Vanity
  • Real
  • Romantic

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Worship

• I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Best

• If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Chance
  • Limits

• When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • May
  • King

• It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Mistake

• More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.

  

  Graham Nash
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

  

  Phil Klay
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