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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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: January 30, 1951

Topics

People Me Performance Song Think

We try really hard to avoid those conventional experiences, these adrenaline rush, anger, competition, violence. We intentionally avoid that. We try to create a game that's serene and tranquil and filled with love.

Love Anger Competition Game Violence

Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.

World Blessings Country Liberty Said

As for the like of Hillary Clinton, I - you know, I've covered Secretary of State Clinton before. I covered her during her campaign. And she's a very likable and charismatic person once you get the chance to spend any time close to her.

Michael Hastings

Time Chance You Person Know She

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Power Best Effort Try Within Our

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

Underdog Political Sydney Up Where

I've had an ambition to be somebody since I was 13 years old because I wanted to help my family. I wanted to hurry and grow up so I could make enough money to buy my father a big car and my mother a beautiful home with an electric washing machine and all those things she used to see in the newspapers.

Family Father Mother Home Car Money

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

Drink Out Writer Walks Needs He

I don't think anybody is perfect.

Think Perfect Anybody

I would sit on the swing set and swing literally for two hours, just, like, imagining things. Like, what if this happened, and what if I was this guy?

Swing What If Two Things Sit Guy

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Hope Feel Look Endurance Holding On

There's an immigration problem in every country that has money, in that people there have a problem with immigration.

Money People Immigration Problem

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

Music Meaning Play Mood Whatever

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