Phil Klay Quotes
The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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I am just a beginner. The two films so far are baby steps. If I develop an attitude, I'll be finished even before I've started. Besides, if I started misbehaving, my folks would give me a tight slap.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
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I’m southern born, and southern bred, and when I die, I’ll be southern dead.
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The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.
