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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Amalia had the unpredictability of a splinter, I couldn't impose on her the prison of a single adjective.
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But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.
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Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.
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The next day, at breakfast and during the entire drive to Milan, he talked passionately about what he considered the most exciting period of his life, the years between 1945 and 1948. I heard in his voice a genuine melancholy, which vanished, however, when he went on to describe with an equally genuine enthusiasm the new climate of revolution, the energy—he said—that was infusing young and old. I kept nodding yes, struck by how important it was for him to convince me that my present was in fact the return of his thrilling past.
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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
