Flann O'Brien Quotes
Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.
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We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that we don't have racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are white. White people think it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.
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The smell of the library was always the same – the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup'.
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There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.
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Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.
