William Lyon Phelps Quotes
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
Quotes to Explore
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn't know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to eat?' Your stomach hurts. Then you get so upset and mad, like, no food. You start having tantrums and don't want to do anything. You get mad at everybody because you don't have any food. That's what happens when you don't eat. You are so sluggish.
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I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife noises.
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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
