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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A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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The Emmy nomination did a world of good for my confidence.
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'cause haters wanna shoot, everything that shine
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The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
