Phil Condit Quotes
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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Someone who would go across a desert that can kill you, to get to another country? You want to be an American *that* bad? 'Cause I've never had to lift my damn finger to be an American. I'm honored to share a country with you.
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When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The process is sometimes painful, but also exciting.
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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
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I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories.
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Liquidity problems can occur in central clearing, even if all counterparties have the financial resources to meet their obligations, if they are unable to convert those resources into cash quickly enough.
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I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society.
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I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.
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I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.
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The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half.
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By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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I think being a young woman is a strength.
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None of us is as smart as all of us.
