Phil Klay Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.
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I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
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I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.
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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
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Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn so much, just like in our music... It's really fun work.
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Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.
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I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.
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If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can't have it, you just go and get it.
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Treating war as farce is one way soldiers deal with it.
