"Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m……" — Utah Phillips
"Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world"
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20 Quotes by Utah Phillips
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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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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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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does…
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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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