Phil Jackson Quotes
It's not something that I have to do tomorrow or next week. I feel real comfortable just taking my time.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.
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Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.
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Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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It's not something that I have to do tomorrow or next week. I feel real comfortable just taking my time.
