Yannis Philippakis Quotes
Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
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There are many ways to improve your writing. Here's the bad news: 1.They all require hard work. 2.There is no magic bullet.
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Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.
