Phaedrus (Gaius Julius Phaedrus) Quotes
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
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Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!
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And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.
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Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.
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If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.
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One is a majority if he is right.
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I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.
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I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals...
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Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs for hours at a time, staring at the ocean. She never had a book or the paper or anything else to distract her. Just the horizon, but it kept her attention, her gaze unwavering. Maybe it was the absence of thought that she loved about being out there, the world narrowing to just the pounding of the waves as the water moved in and out.
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Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
