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Dan Phillips Quotes

Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

Dan Phillips

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: designer
Nationality: american

Topics

Good Police People Building Rocks

Being a kid's not easy. You're transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you're out in the world.

Jocko Willink

World Care Easy You Human Kid

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

Robert Smith

God Myself Pain Sacrifice Song Kind

The educational highlights I remember were not in the classroom. My father spent a lot of time with me when he could. He taught me how to take square roots, a skill I have retained but do not use often, except to check that I still remember.

Angus Deaton

Father Time Me Roots Remember Skill

You can't let everybody know your hand.

Stefon Diggs

You Know Hand Your Everybody

That's what's interesting: When you release an album, everyone hears it their own way.

Stromae

Interesting You Way Everyone Own

I've always had this nightmare of going back to the Kingdome and seeing myself waddle in bald, overweight, with a big belly hanging over my belt, and I just imagine people going, 'That's Steve Largent?'

Steve Largent

Myself People Seeing Back Bald Over

I tape every game I can get my hands on. Every game that's on TV, I tape it. My daughter, Terry Hill, lives in Eureka, and she has a satellite dish, so she tapes what I can't get. I try to keep up with what everybody is doing, so if the phone rings, I'll be ready.

Sid Gillman

Daughter Game Doing Hands Phone Try

I had acquired the skills to sail a ship; I didn't acquire the knowledge.

Tom Holland

Knowledge Sail Ship Skills Acquire

London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It's a contrary, complex and creative city, an anarchist of a thousand faces - fickle and unfailing, tender and bleak, ambitious and callous.

Rory MacLean

Creative City Me London Fresh Faces

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

Martin Shkreli

You Know Being Figure Public

I can only tell you that I am a clean athlete and an honest person.

Lizzie Armitstead

I Am You I Can Person Athlete Clean

Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.

Jason Alexander

Value Bridge Stupid Name Doing You