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'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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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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One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent.
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Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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For long-duration exploration missions, NASA is looking for folks with a lot of operational, hands-on experience, people who have been in field-type situations such as military deployments. In my case, I worked in the Congo and in Biosafety Level 4 labs on smallpox.
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The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into war. ... The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan.
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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.
