"But if it’s true that the only true……" — Utah Phillips
"But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!"
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20 Quotes by Utah Phillips
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Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs…
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The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.
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Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.
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As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America….
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Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the…
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You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual…
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You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen…
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Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes…
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The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.
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Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is…
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I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my…
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Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.
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Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you…
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One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
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The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
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