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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You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
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I just think if you play it, it seeps in, it seeps into the performances, it seeps into the atmosphere of the movie. And a lot of times I used the music ... while they were doing the scene.
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I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.
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Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!
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To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
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The person who knows everything has the most to learn.
