Adam Phillips Quotes
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.
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He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.
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My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.
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It takes two to get one in trouble.
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In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
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Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.
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We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us.
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God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.
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Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.
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When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think everybody feels a great sense of ownership.
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The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with the hoodie. But what you don't get to see in most of those pics is that I had these red clogs on that had, like, eyeballs on the ends of them that I drew on. That speaks a little bit more to what I was going after, stylistically.
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I guess I was a nice girl with a nice figure, because I just had to wear a bathing suit and dive in the pool. I was kind of candy, eye candy.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.
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If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.
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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
