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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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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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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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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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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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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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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While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.
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You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief... That's the only way I know to try to make a film that might be good. You got to take it real seriously like it's your last thing.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.
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The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
