Phil McGraw Quotes
If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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The devil made me do it.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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When you start your bobsled career at 30, a time when most are settling down into their 'real careers' and many are getting married, you can imagine the barrage of questions and the look of, 'You're doing what?' that you receive.
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Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.
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I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.
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If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.
