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Phil Klay Quotes

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

Phil Klay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1983

Topics

Patriotism Think Thought Violence

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Andrea Hirata

Work Think Matters Context Text

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

John Locke

Time Day People Every Day Try Need

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Anna Deavere Smith

Time Interesting You Know Minds

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

John Portman

Architecture People Buildings Way

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

Steve Kazee

Night Self Someone My Own Pretending

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

Tori Amos

People You Defend Leave Who

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

Lorrie Moore

Funny Sad Story Down Meant To Be

I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.

Josh Young

Life Growing Up My Life Growing Will

But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

Jay Chiat

Technology Advertising Think Stop

Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits.

Donald Evans

War Thought Understanding More Going

It came to me that the one thing I could do was cook. And I figured I couldn't do any worse than the people running these places around town.

Colonel Sanders

People Me Places Cook One Thing

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Clifford D. Simak

Technology Path Present New Mankind