Britta Phillips Quotes
I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
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It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
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The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
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The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.
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I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
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You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.
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Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.
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I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.
