John Boyle O'Reilly Quotes
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
