Phil Donahue
Phil Donahue
Phillip John "Phil" Donahueis an American media personality, writer, and film producer best known as the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, also known as Donahue, was the first talk show format that included audience participation. The show had a 29-year run on national television in America that began in Dayton, Ohio, and ended in New York City in 1996...
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth21 December 1935
CityCleveland, OH
children parent important
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
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Miss Child is never bashful with butter.
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The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.
mother war believe
We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.
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A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
kids people gumption
When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.
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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.
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I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.
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When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?
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[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public?