Maureen O'Hara Quotes
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.
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After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.
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Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.
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It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
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I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation to-day is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.
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I have never lost my faith in God.
