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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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General Clark walked the campus like a retired deity and ignored the general run of cadets.
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Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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We do a lot of "capital I" important stories, but one I'd highlight is the work we've done on guns, not only for the acclaim it's gotten but also because it showcases all the different kinds formats we use. So we compiled a database of all the variables of all the mass shootings in America - work the government doesn't do, thanks to the NRA - which allowed us to surface patterns and make data visualizations of it.
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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
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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.
