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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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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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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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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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.
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If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.
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It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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What other people think of how I play and how I go about things really isn't something I worry about.
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What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep me and so many other people from being able to access the things that we need and deserve?
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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.
