Gavin O'Connor Quotes
From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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The circus leaves a sweet memory.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.
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Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins
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I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.
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My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
