Phil Collins Quotes
The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
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I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
