Richard Phillips Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
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I aspire only to silence.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
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Everything I post online is curated.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?
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Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
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Like your booty don't stink.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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Out West all the smells are sucked up out of the baked land by the sun. And it’s as if all the colors in the ground are gobbled up by their sunsets, and so is the blue of the sky. The sky is high and pale and impersonal and you get the feeling it doesn’t belong to you at all, but that it is the property of the chamber of commerce. In the South the sky is humid and low and rich and it’s yours to smell and feel. In the West you’re only an observer. In the West someone sees a flower growing on a mountain and he writes a whole damned pamphlet about it.
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Miami's my favorite art fair. I even surfed there one year.
