Phil Robertson Quotes
I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.
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'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
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I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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When I'm on stage, it's such a spiritual moment that I hope, even when we hit 'Fallon,' you can feel that through the TV. I have this whole horn section that's part of New Power Generation; I have an amazing crew of musicians behind me. It's their energy, too.
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If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
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In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.
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Those that will always help a friend, will always have a friend.
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In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.
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I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.
