Renee O'Connor Quotes
I mean, I like to be creative because it challenges me to try to be better than I am as a person and I hope that in some way that that makes someone else think and feel something about themselves that then has given them the opportunity to grow.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.
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About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.
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It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'
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My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
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Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.
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We've become now an oligarchy instead of a democracy. And I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards of the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.
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I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.
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If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.
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The thing that's very puzzling to somebody who's been in Pakistan repeatedly since 1983 is lots of people live in compounds with high walls in Pakistan. I mean, that's so completely routine. In fact, you know, it would be un-routine to have the reverse.
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I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.
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It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.
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A lot of times, you see everyone's highlight reels because of social media. You don't know the work that went into getting to that point. This is something that's going to take time, hard work, and you have to be dedicated towards your craft.
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Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
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I mean, I like to be creative because it challenges me to try to be better than I am as a person and I hope that in some way that that makes someone else think and feel something about themselves that then has given them the opportunity to grow.
