John Boyle O'Reilly Quotes
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It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
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Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
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I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11 happened. And it was over. By September 12, it was over. And rightfully so. I understood that.
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I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.
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My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until I sit down to do it.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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We take pride in making our Knockouts Division about wrestling, not about looking pretty.
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I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.
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The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.
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The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
