Joseph O'Neill Quotes
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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Oh, I love Nottingham. I know some people go, 'Oh God, there's not much going off there,' but I like staying in and going round to my mum and dad's for a Sunday roast.
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reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
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The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?
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Every young person needs to have a character that they can identify with and feel included by.
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When I started producing it was right at the beginning Channel 4 in England. Nicholas Nickelby which was my first credit as a producer was Contract 001 at Channel 4 - that was the start of independent production in England and the emergence of an independent sector.
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But you need to straddle the line, I think.
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Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.
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Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.
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Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.
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A wild thing may say wild things.
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Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.
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Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.
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One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.
