Phillips Brooks Quotes
To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
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I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.
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Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.
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To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
