Phil Klay Quotes
Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'
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I'm young, Russian, I come from money, and I date a very well-known person.
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Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
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Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.
