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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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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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In order to govern, you have to win.
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The fact that people can predict gravity wave sources that are within shouting distance makes me feel incredibly confident. Compared to monopoles, these sources are not just optimistic thinking.
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I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.
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I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.
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I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.
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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.
