I’d be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I’d run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.
EMO PHILIPSAlways remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: ‘A truck!’
More Emo Philips Quotes
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When I was a kid, my favourite time of the year when I was child was that magical first snowfall. I’d yell Yippee! Snow! and run up to the front door and shout You know the deal… You have to let me in now.
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My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother’s hip replacement. Because, you know… You break it, you buy it.
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At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
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Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed my girlfriend out of her chair.
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Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy.
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My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes.
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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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Not everybody hates me. Only the people who’ve met me.
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Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
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I’ve always thought the best way to teach a kid not to be scared of the dark is to fill his daylight hours with as much horror as possible.
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I’m not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?
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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, “I’m going to mop the floor with your face.” I said, “You’ll be sorry.” He said, “Oh, yeah? Why?” I said, “Well, how are you going to get into the corners?”
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I used to get drunk every night until I puked. Finally I admitted, “I am a bulemic”.
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I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
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You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls.
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