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Phil Klay Quotes

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1983

Topics

School Summer Up Going Candidate

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Dream Birth Right Always Difficulty

A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.

Room Take Pulse Begins Mix Noticed

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Happiness Money You More Buy Bring

There have been competitions where I got on the line and psyched myself out before I even let myself compete. I was thinking about the other competitors and not giving myself a fair chance. I had to shift to thinking, 'Just focus on yourself and doing what your coach has taught you to do.'

Myself Focus Yourself Chance Giving

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

Good Future Food Chef Truck Think

I love accents.

Love Accents I Love

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

Good Teacher Bird Talent Writing

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

William S. Burroughs

Travel Man Space Present More He

I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.

William T. Vollmann

Live Death People Start Think Die

Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.

Business Value Environmental Start

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

Me Strike Emotional Like Songs Very

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

Martin McDonagh

I Am Grow Never Grow Up Realize Up

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