Heather O'Neill Quotes
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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I want to win football games.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
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I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
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As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.
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There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.
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People have also said that I can't be used as a fair example of Hollywood living since I keep my private life so completely separate from my career.
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It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.
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My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
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Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary
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Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls... Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
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A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already.
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Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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My breath in the cold air was bleach that accidentally spilled on a black t-shirt.
