Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed of in the 1970s. Instead, it's the beaten-down city: 8 Mile refers to the line of demarcation between Detroit and suburban, mostly white Oakland County.
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Continuing on my theme of backing inclusive innovations, I am optimistic of the success of Uniphore. Man-machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore's vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem, and the company has already made substantial progress.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.
