Philip James Bailey Quotes
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.
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Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.
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I have been a Jack Albertson fan forever.
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Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
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There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
