Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.
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Marriage is a wonderful thing.
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
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My life has been a series of emergencies.
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The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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People always assume if you're vegetarian you can just live on cheese and meanwhile cheese is awful for your body even if tastes so good. I'm a massive animal lover too. Being vegan has been so good for me. I've never felt better.
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The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.
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I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it.
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I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.
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It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
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I like movies I can relate to.
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Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.
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It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.
