Phil McGraw Quotes
Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
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I believe in my music.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
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Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person - a door which you may not even have known was there. That's what I feel with my son. There's suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life.
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'Entrepreneur' is a French word.
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I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.
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Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
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Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.
