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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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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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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If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.
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Bus driver, bus driver, the sirens have gone,The bombs may come down, but the buses go on;Bus driver, I know you won't think me a snobIf I whisper: 'Bus driver, I don't want your job'.
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We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.
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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
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But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.
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In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. We are not speaking of a wholesome view of self-worth, which is best established by a close relationship with God. But we are speaking of pride as the universal sin, as someone has described it. . . . Essentially, pride is a "my will" rather than "thy will" approach to life. The opposite of pride is humbleness, meekness, submissiveness, or teachableness.
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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.
