Phil Ochs Quotes
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.
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I want to make people laugh.
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Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.
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To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
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À vous il faut la vie naturelle, à moi la vie factice.
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I'm paying more taxes inside my company and personally than I'll ever receive from Congress.
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Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
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The problem for most people as they get older is that they start to buy into their own bullshit to the extent that they just have to eliminate from their inner sanctum anyone who is going to really challenge it. But I think all bandmates of U2 were lucky enough to have the four of us respect and regard each other to the extent that we're kind of always looking out for one another, so none of us can get away with buying into the bullshit.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them.
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It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
