Phil Donahue Quotes

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

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#2. I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

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#3. Will you remember me when I'm gone?

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#4. I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.

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#5. They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

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#6. Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

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#7. Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

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#8. In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

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#9. When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

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#10. December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

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#11. In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

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#12. The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.

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#13. I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

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#14. Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

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#15. I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.

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#16. The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

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#17. I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

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#18. The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

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#19. The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

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#20. Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

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#21. Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

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#22. I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

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#23. Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

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#24. I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.

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#25. [Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors? ... Why shouldn't executions be public?

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#26. To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

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#27. Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

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#28. A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

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#29. Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

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#30. Its like threading a needle while walking on a water bed.

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#31. There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can't wait to make this nation a nation of one religion ... THEIR religion.

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#32. Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.

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#33. The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

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#34. What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

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#35. I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

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

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#37. Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother and nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.

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#38. Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

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#39. In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

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#40. Women are smarter than men because they listen.

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#41. We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

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#42. I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

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#43. When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?

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#44. If Stalin ever told me to urinate, I'm not sure I'd be able to ...

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#45. There is no democracy without dissent.

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#46. The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

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#47. I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

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#48. Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

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#49. Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

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#50. This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.

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#51. At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

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