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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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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There is no country that has the best men.
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Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.
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Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.
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Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.
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Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.
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Traffic was like a bad dog. It wasn't important to look both ways when crossing the street; it was important to not show fear.
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My heart is still with the offense. Al will probably be saying 'Shut up!
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Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
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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.
