Joseph O'Neill Quotes
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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I try to keep a low profile.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.
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So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.
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At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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We know what happens when Europeans start dividing themselves up and emphasizing their differences and seeing a competition between various countries in a zero sum way.
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If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
