Ryan Phillippe Quotes
The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.
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I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I was 40 when I did my first movie.
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The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
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I do think there's no substitute for really hard work. But I think the thing that launched my career at AT&T, I had a pretty tragic thing happen in my family. My sister died, and I was leading a big team at the time, and I had to take time off.
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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
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The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.
