Heather O'Neill Quotes
We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
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Γνώσῃ διδαχθεὶς ὀψὲ γοῦν τὸ σωφρονεῖν.
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If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.
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In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the key to unlocking the dynamics of the strong force that binds together the clump of protons and neutrons at the center of the atom.
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I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.
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If working remotely is such a great idea, why isn't everyone doing it? I think it's because we've been bred on the idea that work happens from 9 to 5, in offices and cubicles. It's no wonder that most who are employed inside that model haven't considered other options, or resist the idea that it could be any different. But it can.
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You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they've got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products.
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I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.
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For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977.
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Don't ask super goofy questions at the premiere of a very serious movie or try to have an in-depth political discussion at the opening of a new fashion boutique.
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Already in 2007 I thought I would be able to break the World record in the near future. That time Sammy Tangui was the pacemaker in Lausanne. I liked the way he was running. He is tall, he has a strong body and his stride is similar to mine. I told him in one of the coming years I would need him when I try to break the World record.
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Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.
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For kids in 2nd or 3rd grade, I would recommend the 'Dear America' series. Most of the stories in the 'Dear America' series, if they have black girls, are about them being enslaved, but they escape or do something really adventurous.
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We consider all our animals to be our kids.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.
