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.

Richard Phillips

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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.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• 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?

  

  Halima Aden
  • Trying
  • School
  • Kids

• But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Me
  • Prefer
  • Smiling

• 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.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Morning
  • Distance
  • View

• 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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• 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.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Think
  • Need
  • Duck

• 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.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Culture
  • Kind
  • More

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Star

• 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.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Love
  • Dance

• After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Women
  • Years
  • Congress

• 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.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Football
  • Chess
  • Move

• 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.

  

  Adrian Cronauer
  • People
  • American

• 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.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Career

• I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk about Elvis Presley and forget he was singing black music. I don't blame Elvis. It was the music business figuring it could make more money from this music if it weren't presented from the original source.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• Airbnb has proven that hospitality, generosity, and the simple act of trust between strangers can go a long way.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Long
  • Simple
  • Trust

• In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curable, but they're very, very highly treatable, and early information is power. The only thing - literally the only thing - that is different is the stigma. And we have to overcome it, because it is now the only reason people are dying.

  

  David Furnish
  • People
  • Different
  • Power

• When I come out to do my stand-up set, I pretty much get bombarded with lines from movies. You try to play off it a little bit, but that's what people want to see.

  

  Kevin Heffernan
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Lies

• Fighting in the UFC means that I'm at the top of the sport, and it means that I'm able to pursue my goal of being a champion in the UFC.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Fighting
  • Champion

• We are fighting against Islamism, not Islam. Islamism is the will to impose Shariah for all as civil, political and religious law. … In reality, it's asking French people to increasingly submit themselves to the Muslim religion. That goes totally against the secular principles of the French republic.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • Political
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Richard Phillips
  • Fighting
  • Professional
  • Personal