Bill Phillips Quotes

The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.

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• I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Chance

• I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • People
  • World
  • Pain

• Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Age
  • Society

• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Long
  • Choice
  • Drink

• My family is a praying family, a Christian family.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Praying

• Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Time
  • Work
  • Sleep

• I wanted to go to college and play football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • College
  • Play
  • Football

• In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • American
  • America
  • Soul

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  

  Mae West
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Unless

• One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • World
  • Right People

• I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

  

  Ice T
  • Done
  • Think
  • Negative

• I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Energy
  • Feel
  • Young

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Dream
  • New
  • Really

• Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Up
  • Church

• The American people are frustrated.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • American
  • Frustrated

• How can you think and hit at the same time?

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Time
  • Think
  • Same

• I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was... I loved it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Day
  • Amazing
  • Independence

• I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.

  

  Bobby Gould
  • Born
  • Lie
  • Club

• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • World
  • Men
  • Politics

• If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Perfect

• I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Great
  • Never
  • Said

• The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Goal
  • Protect
  • Boundaries

• The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.

  

  Bill Phillips
  • Want
  • Difference