Phyllis Bottome Quotes
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Being evil is easy.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
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A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
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If you mistake someone’s solution for a problem to be eliminated, not only are they likely to fail treatment, as often happens in addiction programs, but other problems may emerge.
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There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
