Phil Klay Quotes
When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.Phil Klay
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
Laura Haddock -
My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
Bailee Madison -
The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
Walter Salles -
The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
Hans Jonas -
What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
FKA twigs -
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
Ion Tiriac
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
Nadine Velazquez -
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck -
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
Pankaj Mishra -
I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
Imran Amed -
For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
Karen Hughes -
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
Warren Buffett
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
Oleg Cassini -
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. Wilson -
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
Palmer Luckey -
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
Zoe Saldana -
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
Joanne Rowling
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You have to just enjoy yourself sometimes, and the audience will, too. Not every role has to be 'The Taming of the Shrew.'
Matt Passmore -
As far as Ola is concerned, we are focused and determined to build a business that can sustain and be impactful.
Bhavish Aggarwal -
On 'Glee,' we often tackle the tough topics that young people face - in fact, my recurring character, Wade 'Unique' Adams, is a transgender teenager who finds herself navigating a lot of the same problems many young people face around the globe.
Alex Newell -
But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
Bootsy Collins -
When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.
Phil Klay