Flann O'Brien Quotes
What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
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'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It's not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in 'Elizabethtown.' It wasn't, like, a savage blow.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
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What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.
