Wendell Phillips Quotes
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Quotes to Explore
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.
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We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.
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I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
