Wendell Phillips Quotes
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.
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Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
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I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.
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The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.
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I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
