Philip Guedalla Quotes
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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My dad was a holistic doctor, so putting good things into my body has always been something I've strived for.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
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I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.
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Free government is self-government. A government of the people by the people. The best government of this sort is that which the people think best.
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The last member of the party to disembark was a girl of about nineteen, and it was the young man who stood at the boat's prow to lift her high and dry upon land. She gave him a brave and pretty smile of thanks, but no words passed between them.
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I could almost shed a tear but let’s shine in the time we have remaining you’re a tough old gal but a dog is just a pal and believe me, my dear, I’m not complaining
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.
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I get along with people very easily.
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When we do our legislation, we're not trying to figure out, 'How can I use this to run against you?' We say, 'How can we pass this bill to help both of our constituents?'
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So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.
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There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.
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If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.
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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
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I think preppy stands for optimism, confidence, energy and authenticity.
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Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.
