Busy Philipps Quotes
I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.
