Phil Lord Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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We have to try to do our best in every game with great ambition, because we must always have the right ambition. But at the same time, sometimes you have to compliment your opponent. You must be honest and accept the result.
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It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
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Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.
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Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.
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The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.
