William Lyon Phelps Quotes
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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Lord of yourself, uncumbered with a wife.
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Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.
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If I were writing an article for the newspaper, it would be thesis statement, information, information, supporting arguments. That would be the setup. When I'm making a documentary, the pacing of the film and the way that you sort of switch from character to character - all of those are more about storytelling than straight journalism.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.
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You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
