Charles Phillips Quotes
Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
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People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
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Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.
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We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch Barack Obama being sworn in. During his soaring inaugural address, the new president gazed over a teeming National Mall that was crowded with more than a million people.
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Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.
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The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.
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An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
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Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.
