Phillip Phillips Quotes
I am very grateful for the opportunities provided to me through appearing on 'American Idol.' The value that the fans and the show have given to my career is not lost on me. However, I have not felt that I have been free to conduct my career in a way that I am comfortable with.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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I love running and I will always run.
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A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
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I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.
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Marriage is wonderful.
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I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.
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I don't think about better. You just want it to work. You want it to work and you have your guide with the script. You want it to exist and complete.
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You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities provided to me through appearing on 'American Idol.' The value that the fans and the show have given to my career is not lost on me. However, I have not felt that I have been free to conduct my career in a way that I am comfortable with.
