Phil Crosby (Philip Bayard "Phil" Crosby) Quotes
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
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I don't have a goal. I don't limit myself to a goal.
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White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.
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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
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I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.
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I love research. I love learning...
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I was young and could not see the weaponry my ancestors had left for me, the shield in the tall brown grass, the ax lying right next to the tree.
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The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.
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Teenagers have no advocate. I think any other minority so maligned by Hollywood would have pickets around the theater saying, 'We are not just idiots.'
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And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.
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I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.
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Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé a voir' [it is easy to see].
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If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.
