William H. O'Connell Quotes
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.
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The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places.
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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.
