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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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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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 am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.
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If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
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After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.
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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.'
