Philip James Bailey Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.
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I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that's why I moved to New York two years ago.
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The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.
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How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
