Phillips Brooks Quotes
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.
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I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
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I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.
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As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
