Phillips Brooks Quotes
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
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Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.
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When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.
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Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.
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I throw 14 parties a week.
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When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
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Have you ever been sued by a midget? It's not fun.
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Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now.
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The men I find myself attracted to are the ones who don't say anything and are quite shy.
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I think she would be a very interesting patient. I'd recommend she come three times a week.
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Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.
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Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.
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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
