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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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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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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It is with passion that I love my job. But it is with character that I am able to keep looking forward. Not just beyond criticism or bad results, but also beyond the good moments, too. Everything has to be a balance.
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There is no fate that can not be surmounted by scorn. If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. This word is not too much. Again I fancy Sisyphus returning toward his rock, and the sorrow was in the beginning.
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Anytime I'm at a club or a party, I'm dancing from beginning to end.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.
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I had an unusual beginning in show business - I started at the top.
