Phil Crosby (Philip Bayard "Phil" Crosby) Quotes
Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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I'm someone that never likes to overpower the girls in hair and makeup.
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
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I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
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'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
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Someone once said that Nirvana attracted everybody that had ever been through a broken home... my niche is a lot more specific: It's a lot of females, and a lot of gay guys, and a few advanced and evolved heterosexual men-not many, but there's a few out there.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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The politicians said Dr. Tom Coburn couldn't deliver babies when he got elected to the U.S. Senate.
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Talent is being able to please people.
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I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.
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With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.
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The process and the great smells it produces make everyone hungry and get everyone's mouth watering. And it gives men a chance to cook.
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Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.
