Phil Collins Quotes
Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
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It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away.
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And we shall all be changed in the twinkling of an eye.
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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
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The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.
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Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.
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Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States!
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The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
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Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.
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Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.
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I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues are closer together. Many albums of mine have been popular in England, but, no hit singles. All the hit singles I had were before I went to England. So, I'm not necessarily more popular in England, I'm just popular in England, and more so for my performances than hit records. But, I enjoy doing concert halls all over America, England, Scotland and Australia.
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A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.
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Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.
