Phil Silvers Quotes
When the cameras are turning you are monkeying with my pride. When the man says 'roll 'em' you are fooling with what I exist for.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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Think and grow rich.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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À vous il faut la vie naturelle, à moi la vie factice.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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'When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.'
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A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.
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I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.
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I pride myself on being limber.
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What we are made to do we seldom do well, what we do of our own choice we make a success of for very pride.
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When the cameras are turning you are monkeying with my pride. When the man says 'roll 'em' you are fooling with what I exist for.
