Philip Treacy Quotes
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.
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Sometimes I'll feel like an interview was fine or whatever, and people go, 'Oh, boy, I saw you with so and so last night; that must have been tough.' And then I'm like, 'I guess it was bad. I need to look back at that.'
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In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,That snores when you pick it up.If the ghost cries, they carry itTo their lips and soothe it to sleepWith sounds. And yet, they wake it upDeliberately, by tickling with a finger.
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My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
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Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.
