Phil Klay Quotes
I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
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I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.
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I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
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I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers' problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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No one ever wanted to see it as anything other than a boring play about a middle-aged man having a mid-life crisis. I think it’s about rather more than that - or maybe it’s not. Maybe that’s exactly what it is about.
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Those feminists who say that masculinity is about men believing they can batter women display the deepest ignorance possible about men and masculinity.
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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
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If religion were the only durable foundation for morality you would suspect atheists to be really badly behaved. You would go to a group like the National Academy of Sciences. These are the most elite scientists, 93 percent of whom reject the idea of God. You would expect these guys to be raping and killing and stealing with abandon.
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Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.
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Everyone is trying to reach for their own stars, and all of those stars aren’t light-years away. They are as close as our job, our family, our children, our next-door neighbors and our good friends.
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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
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I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.
