Richard Phillips Quotes

When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise.

Richard Phillips

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• Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Politics

• When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Important
  • King
  • Inspired

• I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Shoulders

• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Happy
  • Mistake
  • Amendment

• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Alone
  • Lonely

• We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Want
  • Rules

• I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Great
  • Film
  • Adventure

• Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Play
  • Football

• To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Live
  • Name
  • Mankind

• We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Time
  • Live
  • Listening

• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Name
  • Hip Hop
  • Street

• I believe in following opportunities.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Believe
  • Opportunities

• I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • You
  • Wish
  • Lifetime

• I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Health
  • Never
  • Sex

• I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Good
  • Women
  • Girl

• I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Costume

• I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Earth
  • Listening
  • Forget

• What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Literature

• A gentleman is not disturbed by anything.

  

  Aristotle
  • Anything
  • Gentleman
  • Disturbed

• Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

  

  Steven Brust
  • Use
  • Works
  • Explain

• When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise.

  

  Richard Phillips
  • Because
  • Greatest
  • Determine