Robert Phillips (Bob Phillips) Quotes
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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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?
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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.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.
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As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity - these three - and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? Men say that God punishes for complaining. No, but men are angry with misery. They are irritated with women for not being happy. They take it as a personal offence. To God alone may women complain without insulting Him!
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Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.
