Flannery O'Connor Quotes
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.
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It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be.
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I had a strong visceral reaction to the 'Moonlight' script, partly because I felt I knew all of these characters.
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Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.
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My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
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The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
