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.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Heart
  • Think

• Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Always

• To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Good
  • You
  • Interview

• 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.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Truth
  • Magic
  • Leaving

• 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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Love
  • Universe

• In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • School
  • Art
  • Best

• I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Education
  • Become
  • Activity

• 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.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Money
  • Song

• Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Chicken

• 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.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Different
  • Age

• '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.

  

  Manny Farber
  • American
  • Study
  • Sex

• I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Time
  • Women
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Movie
  • Think
  • House

• A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Bad
  • Girl
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Music
  • Church
  • Inspiration

• Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • People
  • World
  • Clever

• I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Business
  • Rock

• Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.

  

  David Shrigley
  • Desire
  • Mean
  • Born

• President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

  

  David Letterman
  • Thinking
  • American
  • War

• Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.

  

  John W. Snow
  • Good
  • Energy

• The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • Personality

• I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

  

  Phil Robertson