Renee O'Connor Quotes
I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
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One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
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Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base itself in adaptive skill, or any skill for that matter. All it needs is the fuel of more celebrity, and thus more prestige, and thus more celebrity, and so on ad infinitum.
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When they talk about legal status, that's code for second-class status.
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There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
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Greet your son Aristocleides from me. I pray he may not turn out like you, since you, too, were once an irreproachable young man.
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The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
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I write with teenagers in mind.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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My background is in tech. I studied computer science, and was working on TechTV, so the first thing I wanted to do was see my favorite motherboard stories hit the front page; you know, like, really geeky stuff.
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I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.
