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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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 think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.
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What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
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When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.
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The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
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'You can't buy love with money.' Only a poor person says that.
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Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.
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Do not lie to the Scholar.
