John L. Flannery Quotes
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.
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Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
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It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
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Between going and staying the day wavers,
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In the lost battle,Borne down by the flying,Where mingles war's rattleWith groans of the dying.
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When I am designing, I make a selection of music that will be the inspiration behind the whole collection... I will be blasting that music-it becomes a journey I take in my brain to transfer that sound to the clothing.
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She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
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The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.
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Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.
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With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
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I feel humble that the legacy of those two bands is still intact. It gives me a thrill when people say our music has influenced them in some way or other.
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Mergers and acquisitions, we are always looking for that.
