Phil Collins Quotes
I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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We'll get way further if we educate people and not lock them up.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.
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It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.
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It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.
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I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.
