Flannery O'Connor Quotes
You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.
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I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion, but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.
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Part of brand management is what you don't do, not what you do.
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The waking consciousness, dear friends, is not the ego. The ego is only that portion of the waking consciousness that deals with physical manipulation.
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You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.
