Walter J. Phillips Quotes
Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.
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I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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'Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.'
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In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination...
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To me, the Peabody was as big if not bigger than any award, but I do understand an Emmy Award-winning show has a different buzz when it comes to start talking about renewals and things like that. There's a professional something to it that matters.
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Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
