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.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Responsible

• 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.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • America
  • Team

• Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Charity
  • Hardest

• This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Need
  • Tool

• You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Know

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• 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.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Water
  • Best
  • Beauty

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• Time was God's first creation.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Creation

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• 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.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Community
  • Powerful
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Joy

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Deep
  • Competition
  • Mistakes

• 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.

  

  Origen
  • Wise
  • Word
  • Him

• 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.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Life
  • Why
  • Know

• I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Best
  • Road
  • Messy

• I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • People

• I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Lazy

• If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

  

  James D. Watson
  • People
  • Dream
  • Trust

• David Wain just texted me and asked me if I wanted to do 'Wet Hot.' And I just said, 'Yeah, sure.' And he said, 'You want me to call you and tell you about the character?' And I was like, 'Not really. Just tell me when, and I'll do it.'

  

  Adam Scott
  • Character

• Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

  

  Cliff Burton Metallica
  • Up
  • Game
  • Fate

• 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.

  

  Phil Klay
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