John Phillips Quotes
It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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America is a meritocracy.
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The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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Our America is integrated by a group of more or less homogeneous countries and in most parts of its territory U.S. monopolist capitals maintain an absolute supremacy. Puppet governments or, in the best of cases, weak and fearful local rulers, are incapable of contradicting orders from their Yankee master.
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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.
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It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
