Phil McGraw Quotes
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.
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In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or detained for two years, just for being found in a 'proper' neighbourhood.
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In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.
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Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
