William Lyon Phelps Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
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Bling is good.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
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I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.
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When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out how to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
