Barbara O'Neal Quotes
Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own physician. Don't ignore those little groaning aches and pains.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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I have good stamina and good endurance.
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Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
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I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
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It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out.
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Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was the time and the effort you invested that led to your high achievement.
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The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.
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Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
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Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.
