Phil Collen Quotes
I never used to be into flowers and stuff like that but I do it for my wife all the time now, I'm really soppy with her.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
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History develops, art stands still.
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I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.
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I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.
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The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
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I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.
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God does not deal our karma to us as a punishment. Karma is a manifestation of an impersonal law as well as a personal one. The purpose of our bearing our karma is that karma is our teacher. We must learn the lessons of how and why we misused the energy of life. Until that day comes when we recognize the Law of God as a Law of Love, we will probably encounter difficulties. But if we will only hasten that day's coming into our own life, we will recognize that karma is actually grace and beauty and joy. And love and awareness and hope! -EM
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There's only one city in the world that has this problem this weekend. What a problem to have. We're blessed.
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I never used to be into flowers and stuff like that but I do it for my wife all the time now, I'm really soppy with her.
