Ryan Phillippe Quotes
The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
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Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I have always been a House of Commons man.
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If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don't wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that.
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The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.
