Bijou Phillips Quotes
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
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After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play Pablo, it just reinforced the idea that I had that the war on drugs is a big flop.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.
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Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
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People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?
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We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
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I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.
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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
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Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.
