John Phillips Quotes
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.
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I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.
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Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.
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Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.
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I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
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I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.
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We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.
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My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.
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A celebrity has just as much right to speak out as people who hold real jobs. This is America, after all, and you should not be precluded from voicing your opinions just because you sing songs, mouth other peoples' words on a sitcom or, for that matter, spin a giant multi-colored wheel on a game show.
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'Triple Agent' is a different kind of read because it is, at its core, a pure narrative, the story of an intelligence operation that unfolds over the course of a year and then goes badly wrong. There's a lot of 'news' in the book, including an account of drone warfare that is as detailed, in my humble opinion, as any in the open-source arena.
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I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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'SNL' has kind of been like my school.
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My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
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If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.
