Philip Wylie Quotes
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
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I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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My whole career - I have been really lucky.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
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I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.
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I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.
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We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.
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Let's burn the 99%.
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Stacy Schiff. 'The Witches of Salem: Diabolical doings in a Puritan village', The New Yorker, September 7, 2015, pp. 46-55.
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Human history is not the product of the wise direction of human reason, but is shaped by the forces of emotion-our dreams, our pride, our greed, our fears, and our desire for revenge.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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I love to cook.
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I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.
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If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.
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Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.
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I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.
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Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
