Busy Philipps Quotes
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
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I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.
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Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.
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Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there.
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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
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What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.
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'Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.
