Phil Robertson Quotes
Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table, but all day long.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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I never wanted anyone's pity.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.
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The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of a chief executive in this state and in this nation, when faced with an order by a court that he conscientiously believes violates the constitution he is sworn to respect, is to refuse their order!
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Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table, but all day long.
