Phil Ochs Quotes
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The world is always terrible.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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It's interesting that the wondrous 'Hamilton,' which I could not be more ecstatic about, has taken a long time to perfect to bring it to Broadway. And it wouldn't have been possible if it was developed in the commercial theatre from the get-go.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.
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I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
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I'm gonna give all I've got to give Cross my heart, and I hope to live.
