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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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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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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I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
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At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.
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From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.
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I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!
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Anytime money is your main focus, I think we all come to problems.
