Paul O'Neill Quotes
I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
Quotes to Explore
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
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I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.
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I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.
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Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren't for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems.
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I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.
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A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
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I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
