Will Phillips
Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
shapes easier
It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate.
popcorn sometimes
Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.
given jewel knowledge rich seldom
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
found power
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.
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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.
excuses gave home
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.
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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.
army learned
What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
begin begins city create ends engagement hit leave stage
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.
change early
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.
chicken creates difference hundred pattern
Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.
creates
It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
affordable homes
I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.