Utah Phillips Quotes
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.
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While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
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The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.
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I can put all the idols on my bed and sleep, I'm so fond of them.
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It seems very clear to me that we, in the West, cannot afford to continue assuming propriety over the world's resources in a careless, greedy way without paying for it - not only with the lives of our loved ones, but also with our souls.
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I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.
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I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.
