Michael O'Keefe Quotes
There was a thing on Facebook that said, 'Describe George Clooney's wedding in three words,' and my answer was, 'Not invited again.'
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.
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Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
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Many adult book authors supplement their income by teaching at the college level. Full-time professors fare well, but pay for adjunct professors is notoriously shabby. Children's book authors have a sweeter deal. We're invited by schools, libraries, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies to share our best writing tips and strategies.
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When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity.
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The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.
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I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.
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There was a thing on Facebook that said, 'Describe George Clooney's wedding in three words,' and my answer was, 'Not invited again.'
