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.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Wants

• I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Changed

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• 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.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Olav Thon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Night

• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Free
  • Motion
  • Friction

• 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.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • History
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Me
  • Involved
  • Says

• 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.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• 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.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Me

• Politics ruins the character.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Character
  • Politics
  • Ruins

• Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • You
  • Effort
  • Improve

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Creative

• 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.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • True
  • Action

• For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Times

• After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Free
  • Influence

• I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Magazines
  • Black People

• If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes and forms? And if shapes and forms, why not allow elision or emphasis of detail? And if all these things are allowed, what becomes of the record of actuality ?... Sunk without a trace!

  

  William Mortensen
  • Emotional
  • Records
  • Without

• It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

  

  Elihu Root
  • Long
  • War
  • Community

• When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels.

  

  John Green
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• 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?

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Children
  • Done
  • America