Phil Ochs Quotes
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!
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We all have to make choices in life.
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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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Here I was, sitting with the boys of the first team in cognitive psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology at Stanford and Harvard, and in the midst of this I felt here were men and women who, themselves were not highly evolved beings. Their own lives were not fulfilled.
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I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
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It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
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As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person.
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I love L.A. You definitely can't beat the weather, and being close to the beach is nice. It's a good town.
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There was a scene cut out of 'Big Fat Liar' (2002) where I had to wear a dress. This may sound kind of weird, but I really enjoyed shooting that scene.
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The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.
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It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.
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I was over there, entertaining the troops. I won't say which troops.
