Phil McGraw Quotes
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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BJP is the mothership of violence.
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I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
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Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.
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I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.
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Most of my instruments are handmade.
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Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.
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A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
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Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
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Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.
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I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind.
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I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
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I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.
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There are two fairly standard approaches to political power used by those who seek it. Some seek power with the assumption that the citizenry are the source of legitimacy and are to be treated with respect. Others concentrate on identifying whatever insecurities there are within the citizenry and on exploiting them.'
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You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
