Busy Philipps Quotes
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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I make music because I like making music.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
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This is the standard line of the Trump side of the party, that us who oppose him are just a bunch of elites who live in the Acela corridor in this bubble of unimaginable wealth. I wish I had been born into an extremely wealthy New York real estate family and been given multimillion dollar loans to get my start in life.
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I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.
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When passion has wrecked the body in one life, it is stamped upon the seed atom. In the next descent to rebirth, it is therefore impossible for him to gather sound material with which to build a brain of stable construction.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
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Music and space collide for me, as I find them incredibly stimulating.
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I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
