Utah Phillips Quotes

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

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• It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Understand

• I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Parents
  • Stop
  • Beginning

• One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Why
  • Understand
  • Difficult

• I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Reality

• I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Love
  • Science
  • Reading

• I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Anxiety

• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • Trouble

• A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Successful
  • Plan

• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Lost
  • Village

• I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.

  

  Yuna
  • Me
  • Criticism
  • Down

• It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

  

  Zhou Xun
  • Easy
  • Chinese
  • Films

• I know the consequences of my decisions. I've said no to the biggest of brands. So when I say no to something, I know how much business I will lose out on.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Business
  • Lose
  • Decisions

• I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Always

• To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Broken

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

  

  Man Ray
  • Society
  • Painter
  • Useful

• I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Kids
  • Couple

• I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Me
  • Desire

• He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.

  

  Mark Rydell
  • Eyes

• A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Men
  • Country
  • Action

• Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s. It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society - and that's the young and the poor.

  

  David Robertson
  • Internet
  • Drug
  • Alcohol

• What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Army
  • How
  • Pacifist