Prince Philip Quotes
It would have been very easy to play to the gallery, but I took a conscious decision not to do that. Safer not to be too popular. You can't fall too far.
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Islam means peace.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!
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When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.
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The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”
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I think it's important to not always wear pants and not always wear dresses. You should and mix that up.
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It would have been very easy to play to the gallery, but I took a conscious decision not to do that. Safer not to be too popular. You can't fall too far.
