Phillip Phillips Quotes
I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I grew up on films.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.
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In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.
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You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.
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The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
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I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.
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One thing I really want to explore is writing.
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When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.
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I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.
