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'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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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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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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No one person is an island.
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I am a rune a carrot a little joke
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The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
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The world is always in movement.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.
