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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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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That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
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I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
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Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.
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I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.
