Phil Klay Quotes
Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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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 hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.
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I blame it never taking a break on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all that behind, and I still would have found some way to be an entertainer. I would have never been an actress, though, because I realized early in my life, in like sixth grade, I was a terrible actress.
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It's a lot of work that goes into producing and directing and all those kinds of things. It doesn't just happen. It's a lotta work. It's a lot more work than acting.
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Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.
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Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?
