Utah Phillips Quotes
Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.
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Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.'? Whoever it was, I agree with him.
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Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll.
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A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.
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I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.
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Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?
