Dan Phillips Quotes
Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I can paint in jail.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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I just know what I want for myself.
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When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.
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I just finished a Jackie Chan movie, yes. That was an experience. I can mark that off on my bucket list.
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In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.
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It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
