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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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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We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.
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Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.
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Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.
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The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.
