Phil Lord Quotes
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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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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.
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My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.
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I would love to wear, like, twee Wes Anderson suits everywhere and not get made fun of.
