Phil Collins Quotes
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
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Tokenization applies to scarce assets. Today, the most appropriate thing to tokenize is something that's purely digital. Bitcoin and ethereum are the canonical.
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Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?
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Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
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I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.
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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
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The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
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The last 60 years have seen collapse of many democracies. For a poor country, it is more difficult to sustain a democracy. From poverty, we have come to being a developing nation. Not only did we survive, we have the distinction of becoming world’s largest democracy.
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I hope to show the great worth of women. So far as I'm concerned, we're still underappreciated.
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You get a feeling about things, and if you trust yourself, which I've grown to do, I felt like I had a pretty good indication of how to play the role.
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I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.
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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
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The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.
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There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.
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The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.
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When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids, that can kind of be a shock at first. I think just trying to make time for yourself is very hard. Especially now that I have 3, finding that time can be very difficult.
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Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.
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I believe in myself, and that's why I take criticism. You need to be very strong to survive in Bollywood. If someone calls me a bad actress, I won't live with it but will work towards improving myself.
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Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.
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One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
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My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.
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I prefer black music in general.
