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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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 truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.
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I don't go, 'It is now time to change Americans' perception of Muslims. It's going to be a long day.' I think you just try to be unique and try to be yourself, and if something good comes of that, then great.
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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
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When historical relationships are taken into account, it is difficult to ascribe the house price bubble either to monetary policy or to the broader macroeconomic environment.
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There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
