Philip Roth Quotes
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
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I wish theater criticism in this country could be more of a companion piece to the experience than a warning about where not to spend your money.
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It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things.
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All art is the result of one’s having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end when no one can go any further. This is what it is like to be an artist – you are unsteady on the edge of life like a swan before an anxious launching of himself on the floods where he is gently caught.
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Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.
