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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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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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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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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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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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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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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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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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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My weapon is just a movie.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.
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I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.
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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.
