Flannery O'Connor Quotes
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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The biggest thing Frida brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.
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I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
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Pain has been part of my life. I don't complain about much. When you grow up with six boys, you can't show your pain, and if you do, they'll give you another piece of pain.
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The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism . . . have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.
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No matter how cold you are or how hungry you are, you might be warm tomorrow.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
