John Phillips Quotes
We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
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Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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He's a freak. Just like me. Just like all those Kane-a-nites out there! And you know what, Freaks are cool!
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We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.
