Phil McGraw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick -
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
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People think that I'm mean because I'm quiet, and I don't really go out places or because I don't really say too much. On the other hand, people think that I'm soft because I may not handle myself the way other people handle themselves. That's just not me. They don't know my background or none of that stuff.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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You can cycle through town and nobody shouts, 'look, it's the Princess' – they are used to seeing us. Some people come up and say hello and that's fine. It's no big deal.
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It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.
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The people change, the common denominator is you.
