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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It's wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.
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For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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Miami's my favorite art fair. I even surfed there one year.
