Phil McGraw Quotes
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It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
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There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.
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Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
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Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.
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I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.
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People are used to being coddled.
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I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.
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It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.
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Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
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It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
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I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'
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Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.
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Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.
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Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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The most you get is what you ask for.
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Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?
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You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.
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The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
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You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
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Not everybody is some kind of media model.
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What I want people to do is what's healthy for them.
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I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.
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If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.