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Michelle Phillips Quotes

I don't have any desire to go back into the studio, and I certainly don't have any desire to go back on the road.

Michelle Phillips

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 4, 1944

Topics

Road Back Go Desire Studio Any

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

Son Bird Football Basketball Hockey

I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses.

Knowledge Believe Facts Judge Always

My grandfather on my dad's side was the first in our family to settle in the U.K. He came from Pakistan on his own in the '60s and worked in a cotton mill in Bolton, earning enough to bring over the rest of his family. My dad, Shah, was only about eight when he came to this country. Like most immigrants, he has a fierce work ethic.

Work Family Rest Work Ethic Fierce

Eventually I became involved with somebody, and I was fired.

Fired Involved Somebody Eventually

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

Writing Important Florida University

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

Family Bird Feel Fish Lizard Orphan

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

Dog Great Day Me Writing Think

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Better You Place Damn Something

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

You I Can Desk Will More Things

I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce.

Mother New York Parents City Drive

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

Beauty Music Great Sky Ocean Desert

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Learning Live Know Done Some How

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