Phil Simms Quotes
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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You can't be a victim and heal.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
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And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.
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If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.
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I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.
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I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.
