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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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.
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I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
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I think that when voters react negatively to trade and investment, they are really expressing their angst about the pace of technological change.
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Obamacare is going to destroy our economy and destroy our freedom.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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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.
