Phil Collins Quotes
Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.
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I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
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I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.
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The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
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Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.
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The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
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Humans should not worship other humans at all, but if they must do so it is better that the worshipped ones do not occupy any positions of political power.
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The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.
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Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.
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I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
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We're big 'Game of Thrones' fans, so we call our house King's Landing. I have a studio apartment above our garage that we call Winterfell. I go to Winterfell to write.
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As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
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I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
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Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
