Carl Phillips Quotes
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Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.
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If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer.
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People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.
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To take police numbers in England and Wales to record lows when the terrorist threat to our country is rising is a dereliction of duty by the Conservatives.
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We must teach our children that the real measure of their success in life is how much they'd be worth if they had absolutely nothing.
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.....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.
