William Lyon Phelps Quotes
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
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Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
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When I arrived in Milan, I found myself surrounded by many fantastic footballers.
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When I drive into Augusta and down Magnolia Lane, there's just a spirit and nostalgia about it that you experience nowhere else. Why? Because it's the same place every year.
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
