John Phillips Quotes
Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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If you ask anybody at Microsoft, could they spend more money, all of them would say yes. They should say that! They should say, 'Yes, I have so many terrific innovative, interesting, awesomely impactful ideas that you have to get me more money.' I love that. I love that energy, and I listen to some really fascinating arguments.
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The thing about collaborators is that you don’t know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. In WWII, the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.
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The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest.
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So many of the things we are doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country. I leave you with this thought and challenge any historian, no mater who you are where you are. You show me a country that ever met its demise while as a nation it was honoring the one true God. You won't find it. Let's keep this country alive.
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Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.
