Joseph O'Neill Quotes
New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.
Quotes to Explore
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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There are a lot of bad people out there.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
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Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
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I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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If I eat junk food and have a workout the next day, I feel a significant difference in the way my body responds to exercise. Im sluggish, tired and run out of energy very quickly.
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I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals.
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New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.
