Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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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.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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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.
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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.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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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.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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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.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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Anybody can act good to be around when they are doing really well.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.
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Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.
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The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing.
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I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.
