John L. Phillips Quotes
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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I always thought everybody else was better than me.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.
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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
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You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
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In between shooting for 'Awake,' I was attempting to have my own pilot season. The audition for 'Anger Management' actually came during a week that I was already testing for a couple other shows and we weren't really letting any other shows into the mix.
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It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
