M. William Phelps Quotes
The bottom line is that heat kills more people than any other natural disaster, and yet heat waves go unnamed.
M. William Phelps
Quotes to Explore
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
Talulah Riley
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
Harry A. Blackmun
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The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
Randy Pausch
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I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.
Walt Disney
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Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.
Edmund Burke
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What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening-all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.
Bob Dylan
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Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane,East wind and frost are safely gone;With zephyr mild and balmy rainThe summer comes serenely on;Earth, air, and sun and skies combineTo promise all that’s kind and fair:-But thou, O human heart of mine,Be still, contain thyself, and bear.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
Bill Laswell
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I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.
Kenny Rogers
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People have disliked me. You know, in high school, I wasn't the most popular kid. I wasn't the nerdiest kid. I was kind of in the middle.
Jimmy Fallon
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Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my one or two readers who follow me from book to book!
Colson Whitehead
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Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.
Chinua Achebe
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My my, hey heyRock and roll is here to stay.It's better to burn outThan to fade away.My my, hey hey.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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The old Wall Street saying ' buy on rumors, sell on the news,' is alive and well, as can be seen from numerous sources in the media and the Internet. Rumors can drive herding behavior strongly.
Didier Sornette
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Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.
Jose Ferreira
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We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.
Angela Davis
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He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image.
Rabbi Akiva
