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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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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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.
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Sweet darlin’, come hold me, Just a little bit longer now
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I remember a concert for a visiting girls school, and that was the first time I ever sang - it was always about girls - that was the main thing. But somewhere along the line, it became a cathartic thing.
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Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
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The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.
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Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.
