Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.
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One of the best things I get to do is meet people that have been to the shows and listened to the music. I still don't indulge in the social media side of things, so that's my way of starting conversations - actually hearing people talk.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.
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It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.
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I love a lot of people, understand none of them.
