William Lyon Phelps Quotes

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

William Lyon Phelps

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 2, 1865 - August 21, 1943

Topics

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I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.

Joel Grey

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Media is everything. It's everything.

Andrew Breitbart

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The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

John Leguizamo

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These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

John Lydon

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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Robert Peel

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I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

Angela Ahrendts

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Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Alvin Ailey

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The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

Michele Bachmann

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Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

Louis Malle

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I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So I left school and went back to jazz.

Lizz Wright

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It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

Johnny Galecki

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On a show like 'Oz,' I was wearing Dickies and a cut-off shirt and a gold cross.

Dean Winters

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