Phil McGraw Quotes

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

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• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

  

  Barney Ross
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  • Alone
  • Blue

• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
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  • Freedom
  • Attention

• I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

  

  Fran Drescher
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  • Teenager
  • Going

• I am not an autobiographical writer.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Writer
  • Autobiographical

• When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fighting

• I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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  • School
  • Growing

• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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  • House
  • Dad

• I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
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  • Day
  • Fashion

• I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.

  

  Jacob deGrom
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  • Want
  • Giving

• Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

  

  Lance Reddick
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  • Growing
  • Never

• I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

  

  Sam Phillips
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  • Never
  • Just

• Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I pick up on other people's discomfort.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Up
  • Other

• I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  • Father
  • Parents

• We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.

  

  Hailey Gates
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  • School
  • Book

• The lack of portability and competition has long been a problem in America's insurance market, yet Obamacare took no significant steps to open up the market between state lines.

  

  Bill Flores
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  • Long
  • America

• My dream was always to have an experience where an audience member would turn to another audience member, a stranger, and be like, 'What did we just go through?' And, like, kind of begin to talk.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Experience
  • Dream

• The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• I prefer to stay poor.

  

  Azzedine Alaia

• It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Money

• I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

  

  Phil McGraw
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