Phil Donahue (Phillip John "Phil" Donahue) Quotes
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?
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My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
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When you're going off to Iraq, your horizons become more short term.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
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The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice
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It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.
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I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.
