Phil Ochs Quotes
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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Acting is a youthful profession.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
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I believe that the president should be excused from some of the burdens of ordinary citizenship while serving in office. This is not something I necessarily thought in the 1980s or 1990s. Like many Americans at that time, I believed that the president should be required to shoulder the same obligations that we all carry.
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I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.
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The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
