Phil Everly Quotes
It's hard to get fluffed up about love anymore. I've lived it. I try to avoid it. If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again... I go in another direction.
Quotes to Explore
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.
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There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
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I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.
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When I was small, I didn't even know that I was a kid with special needs. How did I find out? By other people telling me that I was different from everyone else, and that this was a problem.
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It's hard to get fluffed up about love anymore. I've lived it. I try to avoid it. If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again... I go in another direction.
