Norm Phelps Quotes
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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I love apple juice.
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We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
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Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
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We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.
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It's just the game itself that drives me. I just want to be able to compete at a high level.
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My kids know there's no candy, no soda, until the weekend. Those are the days they get to indulge in their sweets. We're big on organic food. I'm not a diet guy; I don't believe in diets. I just believe in a great meal plan.
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My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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Irrespective of my looks and age, they'll like me if I portray my character well.
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Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
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I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.
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It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.
