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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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.
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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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We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.
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You think I wuh-wuh-wuh-want to stay in here? You think I wouldn't like a con-con-vertible and a guh-guh-girl friend? But did you ever have people l-l-laughing at you? No, because you're so b-big and so tough! Well, I'm not big and tough.
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
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I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.
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It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.
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Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.
