Phil Ochs Quotes

I was over there, entertaining the troops. I won't say which troops.

Phil Ochs

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• When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • First
  • Order
  • Trauma

• 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.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Wise
  • Back

• I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Food
  • Cook
  • Allergies

• I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Important
  • Sometimes
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • People
  • Strong
  • Faith

• At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Good
  • Movie
  • End

• When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Back
  • Hit
  • Attacked

• What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Today
  • Day
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Privacy
  • Behind

• When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happened
  • Before
  • Punk

• See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • New

• My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Advice

• We all have to make choices in life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Make

• 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.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Point
  • Case
  • Obscure

• And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Better
  • Pictures
  • Early

• 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.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Men
  • Women
  • Team

• I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Rose
  • March

• They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure. Will they lie, or bluff, or panic, or wilt? Or will they continue to function with some modicum of competence and integrity?

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Trying
  • Integrity

• I think it's extremely important to think of your company as a series of chapters.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Important

• Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.

  

  Peter Welch
  • People
  • Help
  • Night

• While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • True
  • Soul
  • Man

• I was over there, entertaining the troops. I won't say which troops.

  

  Phil Ochs