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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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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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
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If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
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Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.
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I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.
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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.'
