Phyllis Theroux Quotes
Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can’t send any other way can be heard.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?
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In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
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M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.
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We respect everybody's individual opinion, and we have so much respect for veterans. We're probably one of the biggest movie employer of veterans.
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I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
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You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.
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A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
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For me, it's always been about the work - it wasn't about, 'Let's go break some ceilings.' I just wanted to tell an important story and do the best work I can. Everything else is secondary.
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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.
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We will be in the talks process on Monday morning
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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I would like to do a sports movie.
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I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
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How wrong they were. I wasn’t a poor little thing at all. Even as early as this, such is the relief when pressure is removed, even in the very act of waving my last goodbyes, I found it quite difficult to pull a suitably regretful face, and I know I went back into the house, the silent house, the deliciously empty house, with steps so brisk that they nearly ran.
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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
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Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can’t send any other way can be heard.
