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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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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Bodybuilding saved my life because I overcame the nerd stage. I got picked on. I was fascinated with power, and then I decided to take that direction because I knew that would make me feel good about myself.
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Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.
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Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
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Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.
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When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.
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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.
