William Lyon Phelps Quotes
Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.William Lyon Phelps
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley -
California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz -
We were descended from royalty.
Natalie Wood -
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes -
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
Yuna -
I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
L.A. Reid -
I have an appetite to always learn.
Wayne Rogers -
I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
M. J. Rose -
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
Iain Banks -
I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
Sam Smith
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
Rafael Nadal -
Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
Gavin Newsom -
America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady -
Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
Landon Donovan -
The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
Carl Honore -
After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them
Saddam Hussein
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In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.
Dennis Prager -
Gold above $600 is frightening. It appears that people expect inflation, and that people don't have trust in our currency.
Felix Rohatyn -
For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. She wanted to stay like that. She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again long, desiring . . .
Elizabeth von Arnim -
The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.
Marc Ostrofsky -
Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
William Lyon Phelps