Phil Robertson Quotes
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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A good leader must be fair.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
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American voters tend to make their decisions based on a variety of vectors. Professional political satirists employ rather more scientific criteria. Namely: who will provide us with better material over the next four years?
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I'm not going to run for political office.
