Bill O'Reilly Quotes

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

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• When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.

  

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• But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

  

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• Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

  

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

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• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

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• When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

  

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• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

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• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

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• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

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• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

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• You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

  

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• There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.

  

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• I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'

  

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• You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

  

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• Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.

  

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• When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.

  

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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

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• The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

  

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• Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

  

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• My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

  

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• Brazil's got everything to be a great country for Brazilians and for immigrants.

  

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• And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

  

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• My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

  

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