Richard Phillips Quotes
If we strive and continue fighting as best we can, we can overcome a lot of the personal and professional problems that we do have.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
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I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces.
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I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.
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When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
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After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.
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Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
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It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
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Earlier in my career, I needed to be the writer, casting director, set designer, leading man, and producer. I've been eliminating a lot of those jobs. I'm an executive producer right now. I still get to pick the best screenplays.
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Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
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I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.
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'Mad Men' has been my big break. I'm beyond thrilled.
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I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.
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Too hot to handle, too cold to hold!
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, 'What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.'
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If we strive and continue fighting as best we can, we can overcome a lot of the personal and professional problems that we do have.
