John Phillips Quotes

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

John Phillips The Mamas & The Papas

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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.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Danger
  • Terror
  • Effect

• 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.'

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Truth

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

• It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • World
  • Way
  • Strange

• Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Weird

• 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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • Know
  • Old

• I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Greatness
  • Chase

• My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • People
  • Time
  • Desire

• 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.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Like
  • Try
  • Excellence

• 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.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • House
  • Parents
  • Years

• Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • Hate
  • Matter

• Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Shoes

• I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Kids
  • Wish
  • More

• 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.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Time
  • Play
  • Listen

• We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • American
  • Want
  • Latin

• 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.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • People
  • Real
  • America

• When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• [State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Deal
  • Germany
  • Aid

• Fight for the right to live in freedom!

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Live
  • Freedom
  • Fighting

• Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

  

  John Phillips The Mamas & The Papas