Utah Phillips Quotes
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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If I tell you there's cheese on the moon, bring the crackers.
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The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
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My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.
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History is so full of high-level intelligence officials who actually worked for the other side that one is forced to conclude that whether or not top intelligence jobs attract the disloyal, they surely offer incentives to disloyalty.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
