Richard Phillips Quotes
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
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If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
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If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
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Because of our belief in being separate, we fall into all kinds of harmful actions and deeds that create more problems for us. Competitiveness is a big one—trying to get ahead of others, stepping on each other. We become frustrated and angry with each other. We try to control others; we condemn them. All of these things stem from one false belief, “I am apart, separate from everything else.
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Anytime money is your main focus, I think we all come to problems.
