Walter J. Phillips Quotes
A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
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We need to understand the difference between freedom of religion - which is absolutely guaranteed and I would fervently defend. Sharia law is politics; it's not religion. If you say that a woman is voluntarily going to be of lesser value than a man, which is in sharia law, can we allow that?
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: 'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!'
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New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
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It's like catching an ice cream cone out of the air because a child was hit by a car.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.
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Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.
