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"11 Utah Phillips Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 15 May 1935. Died: 23 May 2008 | Musician |

The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

State Born Freedom Assume
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It is better to be likable than to be talented.

Better Likable Talented Than
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It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.

Am Change Culture Early
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

Abundance Fame Found Friends
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

Army How Learned Pacifist
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

Any Freight Go Looking
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

Begin Begins City Create
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Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

Excuses Gave Got Home
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The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

Between Care Feminist Figure
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When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

Calling Favorite First Friend
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I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.

Anarchist Best Candidate Carefully
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Utah Phillips Quotes & Sayings