Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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No one person is an island.
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I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
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Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.
