Phil Collins Quotes

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.

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• I like to prove people wrong.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Like
  • Wrong

• It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Song

• There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Curious

• With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Action

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • People
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• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• The world wants to like America.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • America
  • Like

• I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Alone
  • Like
  • Working

• I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

  

  Kara Hayward
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  • Like
  • Write

• I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• I'm from San Bernardino, California. It's, like, all cows and dairies and very open.

  

  Cameron Dallas
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• I don't like piano solos.

  

  Warren Zevon
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  • Piano
  • Solos

• Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Like
  • Performance
  • Diamonds

• No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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  • Touched

• I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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  • Like
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• Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.

  

  Zahi Hawass
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  • Gold
  • Something

• I like to play by my own rules.

  

  Laila Ali
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  • Like
  • Rules

• I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Play
  • Like
  • Golf

• I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Loved
  • Theater

• I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is against the law to do this, you'll see people texting while they drive.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Law
  • City

• We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Apology
  • Civil Rights

• Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Dark
  • United States
  • Atomic Bomb

• You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
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  • Kid