Emo Philips Quotes
I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
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Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
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I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.
