Philip James Bailey Quotes
Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.
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Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.
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To return to the question of strategy...The Falkland Islands are unlikely to cause a major explosion.
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Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
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'Nothing he said indicated that he was that angry. I mean, there’s a difference between angry and murderous. Isn’t there?''Less than you’d think.'
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The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.
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You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.
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'Yellow Face' marks my summation of multiculturalism.
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That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.
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I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.
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The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.
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I'll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart.
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
