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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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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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.
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Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
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I went to a Turkish hairdresser, and they burned the hair off my ears with a lit taper. They just put the burning candle near your ears and you hear the hair being burned away. And the smell - urggh!
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I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.
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If you're an artist and you have dreams don't stop fighting because dreams really do come true.
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Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.
