Philip James Bailey Quotes
While men are what they are; while they have bad Passions to be roused up: while ruled by men; While all the powers and treasures of a land At beck of the ambitious, wrongs may be Offered, with insult; yea, while rights are worth Maintaining; freedom keeping, or life having, So long dread I, the sword shall shine.
Quotes to Explore
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You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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Without thee I am all unblessed, and wholly blessed in thee alone.
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I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?
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While men are what they are; while they have bad Passions to be roused up: while ruled by men; While all the powers and treasures of a land At beck of the ambitious, wrongs may be Offered, with insult; yea, while rights are worth Maintaining; freedom keeping, or life having, So long dread I, the sword shall shine.
