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Phil Donahue
American
Entertainer
About the author
Miss Child is never bashful with butter.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Time
#Waste
#Feelings
#Silly
Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Thought
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Idea
#Television
#News
#Corporate
I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Celebrity
I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Boats
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Irish
In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#President
#History
#Vice
#Network
In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Reality
I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Celebrity
#Mother
#Company
December 25th has become guilt and obligation.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#December
#Guilt
#Obligation
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Charity
#Volunteerism
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.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Success
Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Ideas
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Honor
#First
Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Public
#Man
#Cheating
Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Want
#People
#Successful
#Old
#Idea
#Class
#Animals
#Cats
#Cows
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Parents
#Criticism
#Tools
#Approval
Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Television
Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Wonder
#Men
#Intimacy
The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Ideas
#Selling
They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#News
We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Children
When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#People
When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#God
#Children
#Years
#Wrong
#Name
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Solution
#Suicide
I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Doubt
#Rebellion
#Certainty
#Devotion
Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Court
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Faith
#Loss
At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Being
#First
#Famous
Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#Pressure
I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#People
#Celebrity
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
Phil Donahue,
American
Entertainer
#World
#Being
#War
#World war