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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National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.
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Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.
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So many athletes are afraid to use their platform to do the right thing and speak what they feel, and that's very depressing. Sure, they are afraid of insulting people and losing money because of it, and everyone wants to make the maximum amount of money in their lifetime. But at the expense of who you are? I don't know. That just wasn't in my DNA.
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Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.
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I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids.
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Anytime money is your main focus, I think we all come to problems.
