Walter J. Phillips Quotes
Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Some have said that we should not have this debate. I disagree.
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We've invented a new marketplace. There was no easy way to rent a person's bedroom over the Internet or book a vacation rental over the Internet. There was no guidebook for us to turn to as we defined this new marketplace.
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The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.
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Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.
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Old-style management is irrelevant.
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Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
