Robert Phillips (Bob Phillips) Quotes
There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
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Planned Parenthood 'is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.' (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).
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It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.
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Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.
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The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
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I'm on a billboard in Times Square, but my bathroom is still dirty, and I have toothpaste on my face.
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For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.
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I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.
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In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.
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Aunt Agatha is like an elephant-not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.
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All those angry, uneducated Trump supporters seemed to understand what his policies were. They figured it out by listening to him. It was only fair. No one listened to Trump, except the voters; and no one listened to the voters, except Trump.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
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There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.
