Robert Phillips (Bob Phillips) Quotes

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

Robert Phillips

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• I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Try

• As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Mom

• I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Character
  • Defending

• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Teacher
  • Yoga
  • Swim

• Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Government
  • Revolution

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Great
  • Music
  • Children

• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Day
  • Sympathy

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Period
  • Creativity

• I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Growing
  • Magic

• How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Describe

• The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Me

• Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Religious

• Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • She
  • Strong
  • Water

• I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.

  

  Leonard Lauder

• It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Easy
  • Criticism
  • Appearance

• I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Night

• I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Energy
  • Thoughts

• I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like something else entirely. It felt like the difference between, I don't know, waiting tables and painting a great work of art. It's night and day. I didn't feel like it was even acting.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Art
  • Night
  • Waiting

• Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

  

  Robert Phillips
  • Night
  • Complaining
  • Teenage