Michelle Phillips Quotes
The hardest one, the thing that made the greatest demand on me, was The Mamas & the Papas.
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You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
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I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.
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I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town.” “Depends on the human,” Claire said. “As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn’t vote him to be in charge.
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I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.
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You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.
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I know. In fact, I am never wrong.
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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
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What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.
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I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.
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I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.
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As the family goes, so go the children.
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In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.
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It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
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Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.
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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
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But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
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The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
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The hardest one, the thing that made the greatest demand on me, was The Mamas & the Papas.
