Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
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I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.
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I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
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All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.
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It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
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When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.
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The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.
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Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.
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Low marginal tax rates are supportive of economic growth. I would submit that we would want to look very hard at government spending - make sure it's controlled - before we raise taxes, which, in turn, would have negative impacts on the economy.
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I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a whole. When that happens, I feel I've accomplished something useful.
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Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.
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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
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The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
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The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men.
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It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
