Phil McGraw Quotes
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.
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I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.
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Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.
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I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as they draw their characters and their stories from what they experience around them. After all, that is what actors, filmmakers, journalists are trained to be: observers. And then they do something with their observations.
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I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.
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Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.
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The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
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I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.
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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
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Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its 'inevitability,' want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.
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No one cares how valuable your product is if its addressable market is small. The key isn't so much the number of users as it is the dollar size of the market.
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With Facebook and Twitter, everyone wants to publicize their innermost truths.
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Since women ask me about male motives all the time, I can offer a bit of advice. If you feel like you're going to get hurt then you shouldn't be there in the first place. That's the way I look at relationships.
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I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.
