Phil Donahue (Phillip John "Phil" Donahue) Quotes
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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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.
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Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.
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Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
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I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
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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.'
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
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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.
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I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for 'deep truths' that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.
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I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
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The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.
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The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
