Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
Iain Duncan Smith
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
Rajiv Ouseph
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
Garth Brooks
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
Sam Brownback
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
Laura Marling
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
Edgardo Osorio
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
Lance Ito
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
Naomi Wolf
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
Rahm Emanuel
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
Natasha Lyonne
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
Imelda Marcos
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
Rand Paul
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Daniel Berrigan
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
Irving Babbitt
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
Venus Williams
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
G-Eazy
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Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.
Pink
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I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
Irvine Welsh
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A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.
Daniel Radcliffe
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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
Carl Sagan
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I like to say what I think, and if it happens to push buttons, sorry.
Miranda Lambert
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I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.
Flannery O'Connor