Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
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Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?
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New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You're in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money.
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Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.
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For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.
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When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.
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Gertrude Johnson could feel no real respect for, no real interest in, anybody who wasn't a writer. For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren't.
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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled scientific experiments with real people, normally.
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp.
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Combating any kind of obstacle is much easier if you know that it's real and not your fault, and it's something you can fight against.
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If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
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I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.
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I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.
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There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
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Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.
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Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions.
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If I didn’t have a ship to go after you, I’d buy one and chase you until I caught you.
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I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
