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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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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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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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
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I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.
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I'm drawn to raw material and raw emotions.
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I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
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I have eight brothers and sisters, so I'd like to have a few children.
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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?
