Wintley Phipps Quotes
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowersStream from the hawthorn on the wind away,The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.
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Possession of anything begins in the mind.
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I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
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I think there are some liberals who are extremely biased about Fox News and wish to shun it or wish to criticize any liberal who appears on Fox News. That, to me, is not a particularly liberal attitude.
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If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.
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I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too.
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There'd be days in high school where I thought I played well, my team got the win, and I'd go to the gym still in my uniform, and my dad would say, 'C'mon, let's go. We have more work to do.'
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I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.
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Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
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I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.
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I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.
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Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.
