Phyllis Theroux Quotes
An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments.
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Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
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Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
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If I knew what the photograph was going to look like, I wouldn't bother taking it. It's the voyage of discovery that fascinates me.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.
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I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
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We have a right to expect that the Negro community will be responsible, will uphold the law, but they have a right to expect that the law will be fair, that the Constitution will be color blind, as Justice Harlan said at the turn of the century.
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An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.
