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Phillips Brooks Quotes

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

Phillips Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: December 13, 1835 - January 23, 1893

Topics

Life You Everything Define Must

I played a trial game for Reading against Brentford. Then the coach told me that they couldn't afford to take me on. So I went to see Brentford. I couldn't believe it when they signed me - they were in the league above Reading.

Me Game Believe Reading Coach See

It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

Yourself See Machine Empowering

When I wake up in the morning, I need the writing to go to. I begin there. And that's not an accident, I mean, that habit of getting up in the morning and going to my writing first thing.

John Edgar Wideman

Morning Habit Writing Wake Up Go Up

People think I'm totally crackers.

Andrea Riseborough

People Think Crackers Totally

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.

Anand Giridharadas

Say Heat Office Always Act Being

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

People Loved Race Always Theme Act

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

Nothing Jesus Christ Russia Analysis

The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.

Memory Better Long Mission Sailor

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Luck Bad Born Bad Luck Where Piece

It's one thing to be funny in a tweet. It is another to be funny for an hour.

Funny One Thing Hour Tweet Thing

We're dealing with an enemy now, ISIS, that has a very sophisticated social media program.

Social Media Media Enemy Now Social

I've seen a lot of people burn very brightly and very quickly, and I think you can become overindulgent sooo quickly in this business, and so I try not to fall into any of the trappings that would affect me very negatively.

Business People Me Think You Fall

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