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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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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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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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.
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I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.
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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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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.