Eugene O'Neill Quotes
What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Member for Islwyn was going to have a single currency willy-nilly. He has already made up his mind. The argument that he uses is that, if others have it, we must. That is an argument for a flock of sheep, not for people who are sent here to analyse the problem and to use our minds and our reason to say which course we should follow.
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I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
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I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
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Movies are different from real life.
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It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.
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...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.
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What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
