Phil Silvers Quotes
They always lost but he didn't blame me because to a gambler, a bad tip is better than no tip at all.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but when I'm actually writing, I'm trying to get into a place where I'm tapping into the deeper, darker elements of what's going on.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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As parents are usually working, they haven't time to teach children about cooking, and it's a wilderness. They should be given healthy recipes - some standbys so that when they leave home, they don't live on junk.
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Fear is the brother of hate.
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'I do not approve of you, Thomas, and I do not approve of your woman, but nor can I approve of a Church that uses pain to bring the love of God to a sinful world. Evil begets evil, it spreads like a weed, but good works are tender shoots that need husbandry.'
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Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
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They always lost but he didn't blame me because to a gambler, a bad tip is better than no tip at all.
