Phil Lord Quotes
One of the things that has proven true in our career is that even if you take something that's as straightforward and classic as a father-son story, you can express it in a way that's totally unique to you.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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There is no truly global justice.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
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We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with?
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The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women’s equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men’s equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman’s child-bearing womb.
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The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.
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My mother watched me. It was true. I had never loved her more.
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One of the things that has proven true in our career is that even if you take something that's as straightforward and classic as a father-son story, you can express it in a way that's totally unique to you.
