Philip James Bailey Quotes
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
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It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.
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Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.
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I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don't really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.
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You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.
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There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for.
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When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.
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Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
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Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
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The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
