Phil McGraw Quotes
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
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I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
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I didn't want to be a soul singer.
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People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.
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I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products.
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I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.
