Britta Phillips Quotes

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

Britta Phillips

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• Ego
• Huge

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• There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Problem
  • Nothing
  • Against

• And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Grow
  • Dawn

• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mistake

• As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Stupid

• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Contribution

• All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.

  

  Zendaya
  • Dad
  • Point
  • Brothers

• Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Sing
  • Believed

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Love
  • Really
  • Bond

• To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mind

• In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Strong

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• There are so many people I wish I could have met:

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Becomes
  • Old-fashioned

• Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Way
  • Hit
  • Los Angeles

• The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Money
  • Love
  • Power

• The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Career
  • Course
  • Olympics

• I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Wife

• It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

  

  James Lafferty
  • Different
  • Character
  • Interesting

• The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Always
  • Humanity
  • Save

• The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

  

  Britta Phillips
  • New York
  • Ego
  • Huge