Phil Klay Quotes
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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We just here to do our job.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too fast before I can get on it, I just get really annoyed. Everybody tells me I'm an idiot; it's supposed to be amazing. I saw some of the second season; I loved it, but I was just detached. I didn't get into it.
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The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.
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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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My father was a World War II Marine who became a high school principal. He always had a heart for students who maybe were underprivileged or had difficulty of some sort.
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One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
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People don't realise I have seriously bad blepharitis.
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He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance.
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Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.
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War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.
