Phil Donahue (Phillip John "Phil" Donahue) Quotes

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

Phil Donahue

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• My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Career
  • Childhood
  • River

• My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Love
  • Football
  • Sports

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • You
  • Model
  • Actor

• Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Design

• I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

  

  Vijay
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Wife
  • Books
  • Read

• For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Success
  • Man
  • Woman

• No one is ever ordinary.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Ordinary
  • Ever

• Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Taken

• To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Beautiful
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Important
  • Live
  • Science

• He is so vain that he wants to figure in history as the settler of all the great questions; but a Parliamentary constitution is not favorable to such ambitions; things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Great
  • Done
  • History

• Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Life
  • Why

• The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.

  

  Marina Oswald
  • Heart
  • Cat

• My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

  

  James Gray
  • Grandparents

• When you're going off to Iraq, your horizons become more short term.

  

  Mark Lippert

• When I was 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, I had so many people I looked up to and was so inspired by all these different people. It's cool to be in that position.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

  

  Louise Penny
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• With 'Captain America,' you might have three lines of dialogue the whole day. And there are just a million angles and a million set-ups, and it's tedious.

  

  Chris Evans
  • America

• When I was younger, I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Country
  • Myself

• I'm honored and I think the relationship with Ralph Lauren brand has been so long because it goes beyond the face or the guy. I don't feel that I'm a model at all, because I'm not. I'm a professional polo player that endorses a clothing company.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Guy

• When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

  

  James H. Boren
  • Doubt

• I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

  

  Phil Donahue
  • Doubt
  • Moved
  • Certainty