Philip J. Kaplan Quotes

It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

Philip J. Kaplan

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• Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Know
  • Capable

• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Happiness

• I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Director
  • Project

• When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Born

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • She
  • Woman

• People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Job
  • Success

• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Text
  • Define

• I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Career
  • Play
  • Rock

• I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?

  

  Raekwon
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Learn

• An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Up
  • You
  • Stage

• Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Music
  • Color
  • Harmony

• I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Mother
  • Afraid
  • Married

• I think - more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Think
  • Start

• Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Culture

• Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Moving
  • California
  • Economy

• For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Done
  • Song

• The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • World

• Generations of devoted American history buffs have spent countless hours reading and writing long books about the American Revolution without ever having come across the name of Dr. Thomas Young. Yet it was Young who came up with the idea for the original tea party - the one in Boston Harbor.

  

  Matthew Stewart
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.

  

  Peter Beard
  • Black
  • Sun

• Anyone I don't know, in my emails or texts, I just delete. If it's someone legitimate, they'll send it again.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac

• At Brit + Co , we're always on the hunt for motivated, smart, and creative folks. And I must admit, we have received some pretty unique resumes.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Pretty
  • Unique
  • Smart

• Findings from thirty years of research on life satisfaction show that happiness requires having clear-cut goals in life that give us a sense of purpose and direction. When we make progress toward satisfying our most cherished needs, goals, and wishes in the sixteen areas of life that contribute to contentment, we create well-being. Our research also shows that when we make progress toward attaining goals in one area of life, we raise our overall life satisfaction in other areas because of the potent “spillover” effect.

  

  Caroline Adams Miller
  • Happiness
  • Goals
  • Research

• It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

  

  Philip J. Kaplan