Phil Crosby (Philip Bayard "Phil" Crosby) Quotes
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.
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I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.
