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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I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.
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Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.
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Chiranjeevi is a good man, and he will do only good things, and our family will support him.
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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.
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If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.
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There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
