Phil Klay Quotes
There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
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I hate exercise when it's a regime, but I love a bit of dance, just moving the whole body.
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.
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White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
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There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.
