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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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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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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I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
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It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
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I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life.
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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I believe in angels.
