Phil McGraw Quotes

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Phil McGraw

Profession : Psychologist

Birth : September 1, 1950

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

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God is a loving god.

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Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

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Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.

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I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

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I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.

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There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

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There are some sick people in this world.

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It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.

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Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

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If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

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I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

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If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

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Not everybody is some kind of media model.

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Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

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I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

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Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.

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Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.

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People are used to being coddled.

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Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

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