Carl Phillips Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
-
I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
-
I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
-
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
-
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
-
My favorite animal is steak.
-
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
-
My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
-
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
-
The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
-
Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.
-
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
-
I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
-
Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
-
Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of trying to resolve the tension between their split identities.
-
Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
-
The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
-
Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.
-
My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could buy Fernandez, my first grand prix horse.
-
The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.
-
Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.
-
I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.
-
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
-
Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.
