Phil Silvers Quotes
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
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I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.
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If I had an explanation, I'd give it. We just got whipped from beginning to end. They did everything right, and we couldn't do anything right.
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How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.
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I had an unusual beginning in show business - I started at the top.
