Philip Hone Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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No two wars are identical.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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I went to a presentation that showed that three-quarters of the streams in the western part of the state no longer flow.
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I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
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I don't like beating people on the head with the message. I don't like standing on the soapbox.
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I'm afraid it's not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin.' Not at all. Not at all.' said the giant politely. 'Never met a nicer hankerchee.
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They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.
