Phil Donahue (Phillip John "Phil" Donahue) Quotes

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

Phil Donahue

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• Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • America
  • Hate

• I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Think
  • Won
  • Tournament

• I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Health
  • Happiness

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Live
  • Women
  • Funny

• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Going

• People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Why
  • Interesting

• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Never
  • First
  • Be The First

• The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Myself

• Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.

  

  Han Fei
  • Day
  • Battles
  • Wage

• I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Happy
  • Day

• Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

  

  Jack Paar
  • Life
  • Long
  • My Life

• What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • Company

• I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and parents having the courage to share their experience.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Experience
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I think that what will help women get into positions of power - well, day nurseries, equal pay, family-friendly working hours. And I think all that's important. I used to think it was the solution. I now think it's enabling, and it's important, but still we have got head work to do about this.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• The truth is that both groups want to be noticed. Yet we view a man's desire for attention as a natural instinct; with a woman, we label her a narcissist.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Desire

• You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • War
  • Die

• With a runner at second base with nobody out, you're trying to punch somebody out. You understand when there are guys in scoring position; hitters like to be aggressive early.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Trying

• When I happen to be satisfied with everything, even God and myself, I immediately react like the man who, on a brilliant day, torments himself because the sun is bound to explode in a few billion years.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • God
  • Sun

• If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Future
  • Today

• Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Charity

• We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

  

  Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Law
  • Here
  • Efforts

• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

  

  Phil Donahue
  • Charity
  • Dollar
  • Volunteerism