Stewart O'Nan Quotes
All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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'No interviews. No panels. No speeches. No comments,' he Wasserman ordered his agents. 'Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.'
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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
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I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.
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In the morning, my alarm clock is a chorus of lemurs yelling!
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The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
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The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.
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To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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I think our problems are inherently unsolvable. We need to change our genetic make-up or create computers that will think us out of it. I don't think humans are able to deal with what we have.
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I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities.
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There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.
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All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
