Phil Klay Quotes

I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.

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• Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Care
  • Accept
  • Doctors

• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Night
  • Best
  • Ideas

• When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Done
  • Nice
  • New York

• You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

  

  Iman
  • Kids
  • Career
  • Want

• Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • Good
  • Always
  • A Good Thing

• We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Army
  • Danger
  • Flexibility

• A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • May
  • Happy
  • Dream

• It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Better
  • Wait
  • Finish

• I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Up
  • Rock
  • inspirational

• In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Business
  • Mirror

• Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Person
  • More
  • Deserve

• There is something so fun about scaring yourself.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Something

• To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • May
  • More
  • Riches

• In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Kindness

• I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Fans
  • Polite
  • Seem

• Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Different
  • Think

• One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Positive
  • Story

• I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Mistake
  • Regret
  • Coffee

• Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

  

  Daniel Yergin
  • World
  • Chinese

• Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Teach

• As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Song
  • Sweet
  • Charity

• At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Rock

• I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.

  

  Phil Klay