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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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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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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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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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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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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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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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.'
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Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
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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.
