Busy Philipps Quotes
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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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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I write in a rush of memory.
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With Sir Isaac Newton's laws of physics, and God being seen as the powerful machine operator who perfectly controls the machine through these orderly laws, we end up with the opposite problem, the very opposite of the ancient situation. Now, instead of chaos reigning and us wondering if there's any order, order reigns supreme, and we wonder if there's any freedom.
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Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.
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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
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I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.
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'Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.
