Mike O'Malley Quotes
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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I like very much to put on fashion shows.
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My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.
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I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.
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They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.
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The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues.
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The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
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I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
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You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
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And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.
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Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.