John Boyle O'Reilly Quotes
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch me.' And No. 2 is, 'I've written a novel... and it's set in your hometown.'
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Being a sex symbol isn't cool unless you're in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.
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Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.
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I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.
