William Lyon Phelps Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.
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I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
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Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.
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Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.
