Phil McGraw Quotes
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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People are ruthless, man.
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I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
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I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.
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I felt like in Tampa Bay a lot of people thought we were overachieving.
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By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.
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If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
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You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
