Philip James Bailey Quotes
Be cheerful and grateful for the good that you have: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.
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I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.
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In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Be cheerful and grateful for the good that you have: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
