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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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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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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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn’t get all its oil from OPEC.
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But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.
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No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
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Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
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If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
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You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
