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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Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.
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The coronation is a symbol of power, but it's not a symbol for us the people. It's a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes back thousands of years.
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.
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I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.
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'Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.
