Philip Green Quotes
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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Men are irrelevant.
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I'm a huge poster collector.
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I'm not radical.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.
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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
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I do feel like my improv training has helped me throughout my entire audition process only because the idea of 'yes and-ing' applies to everything.
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What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.
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The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
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If you're driving down the street, you keep the neck forward. So that way you can clear out the lanes.
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When I am driving my car down the street, I try not to go down the potholes.
