Phil Collins Quotes
Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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War is over if you want it.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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The diva tag just won't go away. I think that's because people want me to be like that. It makes it more interesting if I have thrown a phone at somebody or a water bottle. Sadly that's just not me.
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Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.
