Philip James Bailey Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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I could still eat a cheeseburger if I wanted to. I just can't have them every day.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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I always take time for somebody who wants to talk to me.
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We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.
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None but the brave and beautiful can love.
