Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.
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The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.
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The case is a good example of what Van Vogt came to call 'the violent man' or the 'Right Man.' He is a man driven by a manic need for self-esteem - to feel that he is a 'somebody.' He is obsessed by the question of 'losing face,' so will never, under any circumstances, admit that he might be in the wrong.
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Create and stir other people to create.
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My effort is to slip into any role that is offered to me. The minute you go into those costumes, those grand sets, and start prepping up for the role, you become the part or at least start feeling the part.
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Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.
