Richard Phillips Quotes
For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse.
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
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I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.
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I really like kids.
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As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
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I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
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Sharpton and Jackson are 'race brokers.' Their job is to define black identity and then keep blacks in line to vote to the highest Democratic bidder that serves their purposes. 'Black enough' is just another tool in the bamboozler's toolbox.
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If I'm outside, I want something flat on my feet.
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If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.
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Strong people don't need strong leaders.
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The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
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Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.
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The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
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I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.
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God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.
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When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.
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For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse.
