Robert Phillips (Bob Phillips) Quotes
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.
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I started out as a Democrat.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
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Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
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My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, and I'm like, 'That was me growing up in Brazil!' I had the typical model body, but after babies, it changed. I look more like a woman.
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.
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Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.
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If you want your wife to listen to you, talk to another woman.
