Michelle Phillips Quotes
I love acting, and I really am a group singer, and I'm not really a soloist.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I love my sleep.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them – I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
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The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.
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But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
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I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The LBO business is about how to strip cash out of old, long-in-the-tooth companies and how to make short-term profits. All the jobs that he talks about came from Staples. That was a very early venture stage deal. That, you know they got out of long before it got to its current size.
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I love acting, and I really am a group singer, and I'm not really a soloist.
