Phil Klay Quotes
It's easier to get people to talk to you if you're a vet and you want to interview a vet about war. Sometimes they open up a little bit easier.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Time was God's first creation.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.
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But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.
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I usually make films with $2 and a paper clip.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It's a story.
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It's easier to get people to talk to you if you're a vet and you want to interview a vet about war. Sometimes they open up a little bit easier.
