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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Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.
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Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
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All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one.
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I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.
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I'm geeky about video games. I don't stay inside a lot and just play them 24/7, but if I had the chance, I probably would.
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A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
