Phyllis Smith Quotes
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.
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I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.
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What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see.
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Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
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I believe in angels.
