Michelle Phillips Quotes

I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.

Michelle Phillips The Mamas & The Papas

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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.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Fun
  • Dad
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • May
  • Poetry

• The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Evil
  • Spirit
  • Europe

• 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.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Eyes
  • Singing
  • Hair

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Small
  • Saying

• A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Europe
  • Communism
  • Haunting

• 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.

  

  Randy Weber
  • You
  • Speak
  • Say

• All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Wisdom
  • Does
  • Delhi

• I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Stories
  • Anchor

• Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Like
  • Golf
  • Young

• Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Age
  • City
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Beauty

• 'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Films
  • Favorite
  • Runner

• 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.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Quality
  • Dating

• We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Freedom
  • Price
  • Gain

• Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Now
  • Weekend
  • Eating

• The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Party
  • Challenge
  • Personality

• I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • New York
  • Calm
  • One Day

• If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.

  

  Mark Strong
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Fall

• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Great

• Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales.

  

  Nancy Dunnan
  • Effort
  • Ends
  • Sales

• I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.

  

  Michelle Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
  • Model
  • New York