Sally Phillips Quotes
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.
