Robert Phillips (Bob Phillips) Quotes
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
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The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
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I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.
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After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.
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I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.
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If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
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A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.
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I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen
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Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.
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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion.
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When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.
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The person who knows everything has the most to learn.
