Phil Ochs quote: "There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song."

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the respons...
PHIL OCHS

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?
PHIL OCHS

Smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer.
PHIL OCHS

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
PHIL OCHS

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a ...
PHIL OCHS

I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if i...
PHIL OCHS

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not wha...
PHIL OCHS

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revoluti...
PHIL OCHS

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That'...
PHIL OCHS

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.
PHIL OCHS

We'll leave them in good shape.
SYLVIA OCHS

Everyone knew that girls who admitted to liking girls stopped being whatever they were before and be...
ROBYN OCHS

This sale will not affect the management or business operations of the Times company or the family's...
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operatio...
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.
ADOLPH S. OCHS

More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to ...
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER

Journalism's ultimate purpose [is] to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home an...
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a so...
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the wo...
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home ...
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER

I don't think leadership demands 'yes' or 'no' answers; I think leadership is pr...
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER, JR.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about...
PHIL JACKSON

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.
PHIL MICKELSON

At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It's a waste of energy, a waste of time.
PHIL ANSELMO

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.
PHIL DANIELS

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all ...
PHIL MCGRAW

My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don...
PHIL ROBERTSON

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they c...
PHIL MCGRAW

I prefer black music in general.
PHIL COLLINS

Successful people breed success.
PHIL CROSBY

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants ...
PHIL JACKSON

If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming fles...
PHIL ROBERTSON

There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't...
PHIL GRAMM

At the end of the day, every member of the conservative movement, from our political commentators an...
PHIL GINGREY

Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosex...
PHIL ROBERTSON

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.
PHIL SPECTOR

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of nor...
PHIL MCGRAW

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.
PHIL DONAHUE

Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling ...
PHIL GRAMM

La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.
PHIL KEOGHAN

We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on pape...
PHIL LORD

The border patrol gave us a list of the diseases that they're concerned about, and Ebola was one...
PHIL GINGREY

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
PHIL WELTMAN

I've been embarrassing myself since about birth.
PHIL LESTER

If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside.
PHIL LESTER

The system loves resistance. Resistance is often creative and it feeds on creativity until the subve...
PHIL HINE

I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ...
PHIL LOUT

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordin...
PHIL GRAMM

An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent -- a point of punctuation rather than a u...
PHIL PATTON

The world is in your hands, now use it.
PHIL COLLINS

If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!
PHIL HELLMUTH

Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.
PHIL LESTER

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in ...
PHIL JACKSON

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
PHIL KNIGHT

In 2012, a hamburger cost Amtrak $16.15, with riders paying $9.50. This means that we, the taxpayers...
PHIL GINGREY

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.
PHIL DONAHUE

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million...
PHIL MICKELSON

You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making ...
PHIL LORD

We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hu...
PHIL ROBERTSON

You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you...
PHIL KLAY

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.
PHIL DONAHUE

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.
PHIL COLLINS

Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.
PHIL KLAY

We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a ...
PHIL KNIGHT

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international...
PHIL KNIGHT

I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all creat...
PHIL ROBERTSON

When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next da...
PHIL ROE

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of dist...
PHIL MCGRAW

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
PHIL MCGRAW

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image...
PHIL MCGRAW

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a pla...
PHIL LESH

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.
PHIL CROSBY

In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things tha...
PHIL LAMARR

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall...
PHIL JACKSON

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.
PHIL MICKELSON

Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because i...
PHIL ROBERTSON

You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you,...
PHIL ANSELMO

You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
PHIL MCGRAW

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.
PHIL KLAY

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and ...
PHIL KNIGHT

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
PHIL MCGRAW

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear...
PHIL HARTMAN

Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeli...
PHIL LESTER

You should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves.
PHIL LESTER

I’m breaking
down
and I’ve
got so
little time
to
do it
PHIL VOLATILE

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a ...
PHIL ANSELMO

When Pisces go to war, there’s never a shortage of broken hearts.
PHIL VOLATILE

Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a limin...
PHIL KLAY

The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media cover...
PHIL KLAY

With an extraordinary amount of federal employees authorized to use 100% official time on behalf of ...
PHIL GINGREY

You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop t...
PHIL ANSELMO

In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving than...
PHIL LESH

I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck an...
PHIL ROBERTSON

I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jet...
PHIL ANSELMO

The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, ...
PHIL COLLINS

I have two friends named Matt. They're both scouts in the cavalry. They both served in the same ...
PHIL KLAY

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.
PHIL DONAHUE

We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobo...
PHIL KNIGHT

Acting is my passion, and Chelsea FC is my hobby.
PHIL DANIELS

I am angry - mad - at the Chief Justice, John Roberts.
PHIL GINGREY

There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each o...
PHIL JACKSON

But now that I’m scrubbing
toilets on my hands & knees,
with four degrees,
I re...
PHIL VOLATILE

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of th...
PHIL CROSBY

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
PHIL MCGRAW

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to jo...
PHIL KLAY

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is...
PHIL DONAHUE

'Blasto' is a new game for Sony Playstation. It's an awesome three-dimensional game, and...
PHIL HARTMAN

In my old age, it's kind of funny - at night, what I like to do is watch TV when I go to sleep. ...
PHIL EVERLY

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
PHIL JACKSON

There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are ...
PHIL KLAY

I think that just because you've been through an experience doesn't make you the ultimate ar...
PHIL KLAY

As an OB-GYN physician, I understand the importance of protecting Americans from sexually transmitte...
PHIL GINGREY

I have bitten down or swallowed a few pellets through the years. My uncle had his appendix removed a...
PHIL ROBERTSON

Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there a...
PHIL JACKSON

Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good ...
PHIL KEOGHAN

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.
PHIL DONAHUE

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player...
PHIL KNIGHT

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.
PHIL ROBERTSON

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans&...
PHIL KLAY

In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are...
PHIL DANIELS

We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we did...
PHIL ROBERTSON

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I neve...
PHIL HARTMAN

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remembe...
PHIL DONAHUE

We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.
PHIL ROBERTSON

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when yo...
PHIL JACKSON

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference...
PHIL MCGRAW

If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change...
PHIL ROBERTSON

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
PHIL JACKSON

I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go somep...
PHIL KLAY

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, wa...
PHIL KLAY

I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea a...
PHIL DANIELS

In the Marine Corps, you meet this really broad segment of the country; you're working with peop...
PHIL KLAY

As the son of a Cuban refugee and cousin and nephew to many Cubans on the island, I cringe when Amer...
PHIL LORD

My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. ...
PHIL JACKSON

The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.
PHIL JACKSON

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
PHIL COLLINS

I think Pantera is a type of band that has been documented very, very well over the years. With the ...
PHIL ANSELMO

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean ...
PHIL MCGRAW

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dolla...
PHIL DONAHUE

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild...
PHIL ANSELMO

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary peopl...
PHIL KLAY

There's a tendency to look at anybody who joined the military as if they underwrote everything t...
PHIL KLAY

I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and th...
PHIL ROBERTSON

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb th...
PHIL MCGRAW

My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that ...
PHIL JACKSON

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
PHIL COLLINS

I was proud to represent the 11th District of Georgia as a member of Congress for the past 12 years ...
PHIL GINGREY

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically...
PHIL CROSBY

Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanki...
PHIL ROBERTSON

Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering r...
PHIL GINGREY

When the economy is difficult, people care a great deal about the things they spend their money on. ...
PHIL SCHILLER

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.
PHIL MCGRAW

My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna ...
PHIL DANIELS

You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different f...
PHIL ANSELMO

I'm generally not a fan of didactic art because it papers over many of the hard experiences abou...
PHIL KLAY

We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens th...
PHIL KLAY

Tastes are varied, man, so much in this music world. Look, I adore the bands that I adore. On the fl...
PHIL ANSELMO

I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were t...
PHIL ANSELMO

For the life of me, I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 fe...
PHIL GINGREY

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and he...
PHIL BREDESEN

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's alway...
PHIL ANSELMO

Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce.
PHIL MACNUTT

It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people...
PHIL DIXON

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
PHIL DONAHUE

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken g...
PHIL MCGRAW

When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mande...
PHIL DANIELS

His only downfall was walking Nuñez, and then he hit Luna with two strikes. You expect when you get...
PHIL GARNER

I'm not Jeremy Glick, Billy...
PHIL DONAHUE

If it is that or playing in the Uefa Cup, I know what every player would take.
PHIL THOMPSON

It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people ...
PHIL DIXON

The zoning is frightfully important.
PHIL ALLSOPP

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image...
PHIL MCGRAW

My dad used to say that the holidays are when you get a whole bunch of people that really aren't tha...
PHIL MCGRAW

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so lit...
PHIL MCGRAW

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher stan...
PHIL MCGRAW

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distract...
PHIL MCGRAW

I might not have done it had he been really swinging the bat well, but sometimes you need a mental b...
PHIL GARNER

Do people normally wear boxers under their pyjamas?
PHIL LESTER

It's weird that apples bruise like humans. I'm glad they don't scream when you bite into them.
PHIL LESTER

Just picked up a black pair of scissors thinking they were my glasses.
That definitely would't...
PHIL LESTER

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.
PHIL LESH

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public ...
PHIL KNIGHT

It's a professional military. You sign up and agree to allow your countrymen to use your life as...
PHIL KLAY

I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid schem...
PHIL LORD

Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complic...
PHIL COLLINS

I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical rea...
PHIL KLAY

It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to th...
PHIL MCGRAW

We're heading into a high demand period, even though we have ample supplies, we're not exactly over-...
PHIL FLYNN

I moved him for Morgan. When he came back from the hand injury, I wanted him in a position where guy...
PHIL GARNER

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagin...
PHIL DONAHUE

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm g...
PHIL MCGRAW

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.
PHIL KLAY

I have always been someone who wants to get it right. That started when I ran for school board. It&#...
PHIL GINGREY

It's very, very disappointing because of our toughness. We showed it in the first half, and then for...
PHIL MARTELLI

Once we as doctors are entrusted with the well-being of our patients and their children, it is our d...
PHIL GINGREY

Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Do...
PHIL KLAY

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones w...
PHIL BREDESEN

It´s special, ... That´s the place where I met my first wife and where my second wife (lived). I´...
PHIL BENNETT

We panicked at that point. We didn't go to the boards. We stood and watched. It's what unseasoned pl...
PHIL WEAVER

It was rare, ... We've not seen that from him really all year. He couldn't find (the strike zone), a...
PHIL GARNER

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

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There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

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