Busy Philipps Quotes
I was asked to lose weight by a network for a TV pilot. The conversation happens because you get a job, and your agent or manager calls, and they say, 'They are so excited about you. They just think there is no one better for this part, and they want you to look and feel your best. They really feel that that could include losing 15 or 20 pounds.'
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
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I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.
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Part of my job is to advocate on my constituents' behalf to federal agencies who aren't always responsive.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
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I was asked to lose weight by a network for a TV pilot. The conversation happens because you get a job, and your agent or manager calls, and they say, 'They are so excited about you. They just think there is no one better for this part, and they want you to look and feel your best. They really feel that that could include losing 15 or 20 pounds.'
