Philip Gibbs Quotes
We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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I sorta worked out a few years ago that one of my favorite things to do in 'World of Warcraft' is look for things, to just spend the time flying around searching.
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I didn't even have a uniform, just a cap. I wore my regular clothes. The way my shackjob Betty and I drank there was hardly money for clothes.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
