Michelle Phillips Quotes
I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.
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We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It's really freaking hard to get critical mass.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.
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I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.
