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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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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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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Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.
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I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.
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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.
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When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.
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I'm not looking to be a superstar. I just want to be in a room with good people who are similar to me and are at least open to things that I have to say.
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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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.
