Phil Klay Quotes
You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well.Phil Klay
Quotes to Explore
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles -
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
Callum Keith Rennie -
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee -
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent -
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
Eamon de Valera -
There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut -
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
P. D. James -
I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
Nargis Fakhri -
I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
Daisy Ridley -
With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
Maiara Walsh -
Everybody has a story... and a scream.
Rachel Roberts
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
Natasha Trethewey -
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
Maajid Nawaz -
I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
Laura Kightlinger -
I'm a very lucky girl.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
Damien Chazelle
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I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.
Don Rickles -
Being a popular director or actor's son can be frightening in this industry. What if you are not able to make it?
Anupam Kher -
Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
Deborah Moggach -
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis -
Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.
Mark Williams -
You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well.
Phil Klay