Phil Klay Quotes
I saw so many radically different versions of Iraq. It would have been difficult for me to come back and think, 'This is the Iraq experience.'
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
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There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.
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It was then I truly realised the whale is no more a fish than I am. So much blood. This was not like the fish on the quay, fresh caught, lying flipping and flopping, death on a simmer. This was a fierce, boiling death. She died thrashing blindly in a slick of gore, full of pain and fury, gnashing her jaws, beating her tail, spewing lumps of slime and half-digested fish that fell stinking about us. It was vile. So much strength dies slowly.
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Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.
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My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.
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I saw so many radically different versions of Iraq. It would have been difficult for me to come back and think, 'This is the Iraq experience.'
