Philip Pullman Quotes
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
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My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
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I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
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People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
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Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.
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People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
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The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
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If you have any helpful suggestions I’d be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve.
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In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.
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My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great.
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In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.
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I love that feeling, that feeling of team.
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I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music.
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By promoting justice and thus the interests of the international community as a whole, a state will be able to make its influence over others sustainable and achieve its own national interest.
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Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
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Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.
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Do not lie to the Scholar.
