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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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.
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When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.
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The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death.
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I want to know who is spending $1,000 on a sweater! That makes no sense!
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We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
